PLAY - Mrs Dalloway VIRGINIA WOOLF

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Takes place in one day (1923) in post WW1 London = characters are haunted by the past - patriarchy stopping Clarissa from having freedom.

Question 2

Trapped by her house and patriarchy

Answer 2

“The hall of the was cool as a vault”

Question 3

Craving freedom from society, shown through contradiction of a nun and escapism.

Answer 3

“she felt like a nun who has left the world”

Question 4

She is looked up to by maid showing has some power and status despite being beneath her husband

Answer 4

“taking Mrs. Dalloway’s parasol, handled it like a sacred weapon, which a Goddess…sheds”

Question 5

Losing her identity, consumed by society

Answer 5

“feeling herself suddenly shrivelled, aged, breastless”

Question 6

Feels trapped, mentally unstable, hinge moment from feeling happy and blessed to feeling trapped just because not invited to Lady Bruton’s party.

Answer 6

“narrower and narrower would her bed be”.

Question 7

Stream of consciousness, showing thought processes of

Answer 7

“Life was that - humiliation, renunciation”

Question 8

Septimus Warren Smith, shell shocked soldier, showing feels world against him and has/is destroying his life

Answer 8

“The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames”