Alicia DiMatteo
ENG 383
Professor Stephen Barber
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
In the novel Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith, are both struggling to achieve a balance between communication and privacy in their lives through their interactions with others. Clarissa and Septimus are traveling separate roads on their walk through life, and yet inevitably they turn out to be very similar people. They are both of different classes in British society which means that their social interactions would be limited or almost nothing.
Communication enables individuals to relate to others on a deeper level, but it can also result in a loss of privacy. The reader is taken on a journey into the lives and thoughts of many people. The novel gives you the ability to hear and see what may seem like ordinary conversations and interactions between characters, but if looked at with a deeper scope of vision, the opportunity to take a glimpse into their......
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