Symbolism of Septimus's Death
Virginia Woolf's 1925 modernist novel Mrs. Dalloway has a wide surplus of talking points, and during my class, we have touched up on so many potential blog talking points that I wrote in my notebook. All these topics would make for a very compelling discussion starter - whether it is about character studies, symbolism, the environment, parallels between characters and even to Woolf herself. So naturally, I had a lot of choices for my blog. (note: I originally intended for my Dalloway blog topic to be about a much broader aspect of Woolf's life and even an important part in literature as a whole. As you know, before jumping fully into Dalloway, we read "Modern Fiction" and "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown", two essays from The Common Reader. These articles explored both Woolf's unique writing style and views on writing. Woolf famously criticizes Edwardian and late Victorian writers such as HG Wells, Arnold Bennett, and John Galsworthy by arguing that they ...