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    Literature teacher’s notes B2 Units

    Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf


    Before reading 3 Students now think about the narrative style of the
    1 Write on the board Mrs Dalloway. Ask students if they excerpt. Explain that the ‘stream of consciousness’
    have heard this name before, and explain that it is both style was something that Virginia Woolf had been
    a title and a character in a novel. Ask students to read experimenting with, and which she uses to great success
    About the story and About the author. In pairs, ask in Mrs Dalloway. Explain that it is a narrative style in
    them to imagine what sort of person Clarissa Dalloway which we hear the character’s every thought, however
    is. Encourage them to use their imaginations and think small and insignificant it might be, one after the other.
    about their answers to the questions. They then write Ask students to look at the excerpt again and find the
    a short description of Mrs Dalloway, adding their own information.
    ideas. Answers
    Answer 1 her education (with Fräulein Daniels), parties at
    Students’ own answers. Devonshire House and Bath House and a house with
    the china cockatoo; people at the parties; dancing all
    2 Ask students to read About the author and About the night, waggons going past; driving home across the
    story again. Ask them to think about the character of park; throwing a shilling into the Serpentine
    Clarissa Dalloway in more detail, and work in pairs to
    2 Fräulein Daniels, Peter, Sylvia, Fred, Sally Seton
    answer the questions.
    3 the park gates, (omni)buses, taxi cabs, a fat lady in a
    Answer cab, a shop window
    Students’ own answers.
    After reading
    CULTURAL INFORMATION 1 Ask students to think about the narrative style, and the
    In Mrs Dalloway, Woolf discovered a new literary form effect that using a stream of consciousness has on how
    which she uses to great effect to explore post-war life. the reader perceives events. Direct them to consider the
    This period in England was a time of great social change. four points listed.
    The British Empire was in decline and many traditional
    values were being questioned. Women were a new Possible answers
    ■ 
    characters: these are presented mainly from the main
    powerful force in the labour movement, and were about
    to win the vote (1928). Mrs Dalloway is a key text in the protagonist’s perspective. It’s a subjective view, and
    evolution of the novel. It rejects the realistic plots and the reader must bear in mind that the narrator may not
    typical linear timeframe of the 19th century novel, using be reliable.
    one character’s thoughts to create a framework for the ■ 
    time: because stream of consciousness focuses on
    narrative, exploring complex memories, emotions, and every thought, time in the novel may be extended.
    the human condition. Mrs Dalloway is considered to be a In the case of Mrs Dalloway, the novel focuses on a
    classic modernist novel. Other modernist writers include single day, with no detail considered too small to be
    T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. mentioned.
    ■ 
    emotions: because we are witness to each thought
    and feeling in the protagonist’s mind, her emotions are
    While reading
    laid bare for the reader to see.
    1 Before starting exercise 1, make sure that students ■ 
    memories: these crowd into the narrative, randomly
    understand all the words and refer them to the interrupting and taking over the flow of thought.
    Vocabulary focus box. Ask students to read the excerpt,
    then read and answer the questions. 2 This exercise focuses on understanding the mood of
    the excerpt and the mood of the main character. Ask
    Answers students to work in small groups and discuss their
    1 In London, near a park, in Piccadilly. answers to the questions. In the second part of the
    2 She’s walking along the street. activity, students write their own paragraph, continuing
    from the excerpt in the same style.
    3 To know people almost by instinct.
    4 Two houses where she attended parties in the past. Answer
    2 Ask students if the excerpt is mostly about Mrs Students’ own answers.
    Dalloway’s thoughts or what she is actually doing (her 3 Invite students to share their opinions about the
    thoughts). This activity focuses students on what she is excerpt. Did they enjoy it and the style of narrative?
    thinking. Students read the sentences and number them Encourage them to share their opinions, both positive
    in the order in which they occur. and negative.
    Answers
    1 f  2 c  3 g  4 a  5 d  6 h  7 b  8 e

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