Clarissa Flashcards
Clarissa as old
“shrivelled, aged, breastless”
Clarissa felling religous guilt as she masturbates?
feels “like a nun”
Clarissa linking masturbation with death (grave imagery)
“narrower and narrower would her bed be”
Clarissa’s feeling of masturbation as revolutionary
“she did undoubtedly then feel what men felt”
“the hard softened” (phallic)
“gushed and poured with an extraordinary alleviation”
how does Clarissa feel after kissing Sally Seton?
“The whole world might have turned upside down!”
After knowing Septimus’ suicide, how did Clarissa describe death?
“defiance and an attempt to communicate”
Clarissa’s revelation at the end of the party?
“are we not all prisoners?”
How does Clarissa personify religion?
“the spirit of religion was abroad with her eyes bandaged tight and her lips gaping wide”
Clarissa’s love for London?
“loving it as she did with an absurd and faithful passion”
Clarissa’s description of Elizabeth
“fair-haired; blue eyed” “Chinese eyes in a pale face; an Oriental mystery”- use of oriental language to convey beauty
Clarissa suspecting Elizabeth’s lesbianism
“it might be falling in love”
Clarissa’s maternal jealousy
“with a violent anguish, for this woman was taking her daughter”- theory of melancholia through Lacanian lens
Clarissa’s classism against Miss Kilman
-describes her as “degradingly poor”
Clarissa portraying Miss Kilman as a religious hypocrite
-describes her as a “prehistoric monster”- Kilman holds archaic values of the Victorian era. Grotesque metaphor.
-“cruellest things in the world”
-believes she will destroy “the privacy of the soul”
Clarissa using Elizabeth to express her maternity
When “Elizabeth had gone” “beauty had gone, youth had gone”
Clarissa describes marriage as…
having “little independence”
Clarissa’s loss of identity in marriage?
“Mrs Richard Dalloway”
Clarissa’s reflection on her cold heterosexual relationships
she lacked “something warm”
Clarissa and Peter’s conversation as a battle
“a battle begins, the horses paw the grounds”
Clarissa as an extension of her husband, striving for autonomy and independence
“Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself”
Clarissa feeling that her body does not comply with her mind, she would have preferred to be close to male
“interested in politics like a man”
Clarissa feeling threatened by Miss Kilman
she made you feel her “superiority, your inferiority”
Clarissa reflects on her possible marriage to Peter
“If I had married him, this gaiety would have been mine all day!”
