Within that day, Clarissa reveals the internal thoughts within a compressed period of time. While images of love, passion, friendly and peaceful life have fossilized in character’s Memories before the WW1, Clarisse's perception and recollection of the past memories are interrupted by the present interfering surroundings to cause her a confusing with remembering" For having lived in Westminster- how many years now? Over twenty, - one feels even in the midst of the traffic or walking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that may be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza"(Woolf 4). Clarissa says that she lived in Westminster, however, with all the manifestation of urban
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Within the internal time, deep recollection of the past shows her desire to live again as those happy memories with Peter, provides her with power and passion to relive against the oppression of society. Peter is Clarissa’s ex-suitor who empowers her to resolve her personal predicament, “This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows, courage and endurance; a perfectly up right and stoical bearing"(Woolf 9-10). Put differently, for Bergson the inner time Is “a continuous progress of the past which gnaws into the future and which swells as it advances. And as the past grows without ceasing, so also there is no limit to its preservation” (Bergson 173). Such a psychological time which relies on the human consciousness that gives the duration of emotions, for the system of mind is personal and subjective whereas the clock is public and objective. For Bergson, it is a different method of perceiving time and is associated with memory, compression, extension, and duration. He increasingly believes the mental and inner experience aspects of human being are neglected as a result of the modern, industrial, soulless and mechanistic society. After marrying Richard Dalloway, Clarissa’s life was fragmented. Perhaps, within those good memories of Peter Walsh, she resists and survives to live one more
Within the internal time, deep recollection of the past shows her desire to live again as those happy memories with Peter, provides her with power and passion to relive against the oppression of society. Peter is Clarissa’s ex-suitor who empowers her to resolve her personal predicament, “This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows, courage and endurance; a perfectly up right and stoical bearing"(Woolf 9-10). Put differently, for Bergson the inner time Is “a continuous progress of the past which gnaws into the future and which swells as it advances. And as the past grows without ceasing, so also there is no limit to its preservation” (Bergson 173). Such a psychological time which relies on the human consciousness that gives the duration of emotions, for the system of mind is personal and subjective whereas the clock is public and objective. For Bergson, it is a different method of perceiving time and is associated with memory, compression, extension, and duration. He increasingly believes the mental and inner experience aspects of human being are neglected as a result of the modern, industrial, soulless and mechanistic society. After marrying Richard Dalloway, Clarissa’s life was fragmented. Perhaps, within those good memories of Peter Walsh, she resists and survives to live one more