Virginia Woolf

Question 1

The Waves PUB DATE

Answer 1

1931

Question 2

To the Lighthouse

Answer 2

1927

Question 3

Present moment narration basics

Answer 3

• life as a “myriad of impressions” that fall upon us like “an incessant shower of innumerable atoms” - Modern Fiction

Question 4

narration in novels

Answer 4

• TtLh: Free indirect discourse; similar to stream of consciousness but changes in perspective are not announced
• embedded brackets, multiple thoughts, switching consciousness
• TW: narrator only ever says “said”, self-contained within punctuation = isolating

Question 5

Trying to transgress temporality in novels

Answer 5

• Mr Ramsay’s academic work: “The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
• Mrs Ramsay’s love for her children: “For that reason, knowing what was before them–love and ambition and being wretched alone in dreary places–she had often the feeling, Why must they grow up and lose it all?”
• Lily Briscoe by painting
• Bernard through language: “my book with phrases has dropped to the floor”

Question 6

shared moments TW quotes

Answer 6

• “Motorcars, vans, omnibuses pass and repass continuously. All are merged in one turning wheel of single sound. All separate sounds…are churned into one sound.”
• Louis thinks “the attempts to say, ‘I am this, I am that” , which we make, coming together, like separated parts of one body and soul, are false”.
• Neville shortly echo this sentiment through the thought “we reason and jerk out these false sayings, ‘I am this; I am that!’ Speech is false.”

Question 7

shared moments to the lighthouse

Answer 7

• Lighthouse dinner party; “there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that remains for ever after. This would remain.”  human connection is greater than time, lasts forever

Question 8

shared moments crit.

Answer 8

Kirsty Martin’s interpretation that the characters are “bound together by rhythms created by grammatical, syntactical similarity of their speech”