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Assignment on Virginia Woolf as a Novelist, 2019
Stream of Consciousness, 2019
The phrase "Stream of Consciousness" was coined by William James to describe the flow of thoughts... more The phrase "Stream of Consciousness" was coined by William James to describe the flow of thoughts of the waking mind. It is a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. In literature it is a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. The related phrase "interior monologue" is used to describe the inner movement of consciousness in a character's mind. The use of devices of the stream of consciousness and the interior monologue marks a revolution in the form of the novel because through these devices the author can represent the flux of a character's thoughts, impressions, and emotions and reminiscences (recollections), often without any logical sequence. According to Virginia Woolf, the conventional novel did not express life adequately. She was of the opinion that life was a shower of ever-failing atoms of experience, and not a narrative line. Life, she said, was a luminous halo (radiance), a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to end. She tried to experiment with the same technique in her novel, 'To the Lighthouse'. In which the characters reveal themselves very much in the same way. Although she depicts character through the inner consciousness of the person whom we meet in this novel but she herself remains the controlling intelligence, speaking in the third person. While she very seldom slips in comments of her own, she remains the narrator, telling us what is going on in the various minds. Virginia Woolf shows us a particular person in this novel not only through the consciousness of that person himself or herself, but also through the consciousness of the other persons. We are given the interior monologues of the various characters in this novel, and it is largely through the twin devices of stream of consciousness and the interior monologue that we come to know the various characters. Thus we see Mrs. Ramsay not only through her own consciousness but through the consciousness of Mr. Ramsey, the child James, Lily Briscoe, Mr. Tansley and Mr. Bankes. Similarly we come to know Mr. Ramsay not only through his own consciousness but also through the consciousness of Mrs. Ramsay, the young James, Lily Briscoe, and Mr. Bankes. In fact, every character in the novel is presented to us through his own consciousness and also through the consciousness of the other characters. At the same time, the characters are occasionally presented to us directly by the all-knowing author of the novel, and also sometimes bits of conversation or dialogue between the characters. Mrs. Woolf's Concern in writing novels was not merely to narrate a story as the older novelists did, but to discover and record life as the people feel who live it. Hence it is she rejected the conventional technique of narration and adopted a new technique more suited to her purposes. It is for this reason that in 'To The Lighthouse' she did not tell a story, in the sense of a series of events, and has concentrated on a small number of characters, whose nature and feelings are represented to us largely through their interior monologues. In order to capture the inner reality, the truth about life, she has tried to represent the moving current of life and the individual's consciousness of the fleeting movement, and secondly, also to select from this current and organize it so that the novel may
The phrase "Stream of Consciousness" was coined by William James to describe the flow of thoughts... more The phrase "Stream of Consciousness" was coined by William James to describe the flow of thoughts of the waking mind. It is a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. In literature it is a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. The related phrase "interior monologue" is used to describe the inner movement of consciousness in a character's mind. The use of devices of the stream of consciousness and the interior monologue marks a revolution in the form of the novel because through these devices the author can represent the flux of a character's thoughts, impressions, and emotions and reminiscences (recollections), often without any logical sequence.
The word 'Renaissance' itself means 'rebirth'. "The idea of rebirth originated in the belief that... more The word 'Renaissance' itself means 'rebirth'. "The idea of rebirth originated in the belief that Europeans had discovered the superiority of Greek and Roman culture after many centuries of what they considered intellectual and culture decline." Thus the question what was the renaissance about is answered as the widespread cultural revival marking the division between the so called 'dark ages' and the modern world. The Renaissance was a period of fundamental change in human outlook once dominated by religious dogma and Christian theology. The age was marked by a great yearning for unlimited knowledge; by love for worldliness -supreme power, sensual pleasures of life; by love for beauty; respect for classicism; by skepticism, individualism and Machiavellian influence.
According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, personality develops through a series of stages, each... more According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, personality develops through a series of stages, each characterized by a certain internal psychological conflict.
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The Ghost of Old Hamlet haunts the castle of Elsinore. Having been murdered by his brother, he wa... more The Ghost of Old Hamlet haunts the castle of Elsinore. Having been murdered by his brother, he wanders the night, waiting for a chance to speak with his son.
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