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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway

?Introduction & thesis Statement\nIn wizard by and by(prenominal)noon tea shot in Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, 17-year-old Elizabeth leaves her tutor, Doris Kilman, in dismay, care a thudding creature galloped in scourge (Woolf 146). Away from the sti cast away confabulation with Kilman, Elizabeth muses upon her future. She would not grow up to be interchangeable Kilman, nor would she entreat to lead a manners equivalent her mothers. Elizabeth thinks active being a vivify or a husbandman in short, she would like to absorb a profession. She would become a doctor, a farmer, possibly go into Parliament if she found it necessary... (Woolf 150-151). Whether Elizabeth becomes a doctor, a farmer, or a parliament member is sure left un make outed, given that the fabrication captures just one sidereal day in Mrs. Dalloways life. Yet, why does Elizabeth find it difficult to send with the two elder women so close to her? Why does Woolf cut back for Elizabeth to turn away from Kilman and to redact alone in the streets of capital of the United Kingdom? How, after the short wandering, is Elizabeth competent to return to her mother sedately and competently (Woolf 153)? One social function is for certain Elizabeth exhibits awareness that she has more than choices regarding her own lifes course than her mothers generation, and in this brief scene, Woolf seems to fling at later generations the scruple whether daughters can transcend the rigid dichotomy of women devised by patriarchy docile, dutiful wife like Mrs. Dalloway/outlandish, unamiable single woman like Kilman? If women need not be trapped in both form of dichotomy which undermines their multiplicity, how do we free ourselves from the entrapment? Through inclination? Through creativity? Or through artistic beingness?\nIn an attempt to answer the above questions, I would like to quote a roue from Margaret Atwoods poem spell: A word after a word after a word is effect, which indicates the relevancy between womens writing and acquisition of ...

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