To The Lighthouse as exemplifying Mr and Mrs B Flashcards
Quote for Modern Fiction. (What year?)
1925, the year after Mr and Mrs B
“explore the ‘myriad impressions’ a mind receives in the course of a day”
Glossary of Literary Terms describes Stream of Consciousness as…
“the course and rhythm of consciousness precisely as it occurs in a character’s mind”
Fragmentation, away from primacy of plot
‘Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,’ said Mrs. Ramsay. ‘But you’ll have to be up with the lark,’ she added”
Auerbach: Woolf’s writing is like real life
“Nothing less than the wealth of reality and depth of life in every moment”
Who talks about the complexity of Mrs Ramsay’s character?
What are the two arguments? (One with critic)
Silver frames the debate as to whether Mrs Ramsaytotallyencompasses the female ideal, or whether she is“negative influence” (Pedersen)
Why this method of writing is good for character? Quote form book
“one wanted fifty pairs of eyes to see with…fifty pairs of eyes were not enough to get round that one woman”
Reflect character truthfully 1 : the bad x3
“She was too sure, too drastic”
“her masterfulness”
“she was weak with her husband. She let him make those scenes. Then she was reserved.”
Reflect character truthfully 2: the good
That is the thing itself, she felt, as if there were only one person like that in the world; her mother.
twice she is said to confer “bliss”
Vanessa Bell re: Mrs Ramsay
a portrait of mother which is more like her to me than anything I could ever have conceived of as possible. It is almost painful to have her so raised from the dead.
Showing stream of conciousness
Quote at start?
Stream x 7
“But it may be fine–I expect it will be fine,”
go to the Lighthouse / give stocking to the Lighthouse keeper son/ list of things to take/ how bored they must be /terribleness of isolation /imagines terror of storm/ She wants her daughters to be more compassionate
how many pages based on the short conversation about the lighthouse go on for
almost 30 pages
