Mrs. Dalloway has captured the attention of numerous individuals for its complex and unique plot, theme, and language. The author, Virginia Woolf, was famous for writing novels, which exhibited complicated connotations such as mental illness and the human psyche. Her most famous novel, Mrs. Dalloway, encased the theme of the unknown and unexplored dimensions of the human mind and illustrated how far the mind can go when examining and analyzing a simple situation, making the situation more elaborate and convoluted then previously thought. In manipulating the style, rhythm, and tone of the language, Woolf produces a novel filled with numerous engaging elements, allowing her audience to visualize and the feelings and perceive the thoughts
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She exercises these skills multiple times throughout Mrs. Dalloway, though it can be especially seen in the scene when Septimus commits suicide. During Septimus’s death, Woolf used strong descriptive language to describe the complex nature of Septimus’s mind and in doing this, the scene accurately depicted what it is like to be insane. The slowing of time, the growing darkness in which fills his mind, and the horrific visions of death were so detailed that the audience could painfully internalize these scenes as if it were them who were suffering. In addition, Septimus’s inner thoughts revealed his lack of self-worth and emphasized the depression he succumbed to — “[i]t was their idea of tragedy, not his (Woolf - 149),” the tragedy referring to Septimus’s death. During this scene, Woolf applied her language skills to reflect the pessimistic perspective of Septimus and allowed the audience to have a brief glance into the mind of a suicidal individual. In a conventional sense, Mrs. Dalloway essentially did not have customary climax nor a determined framework, and, in a sense, this was Woolf’s way of purposefully replicating the disarray and confusion found in Septimus. The complex style of Woolf’s writing closely relates to the nature of the human psyche, and she conveys this with her character Septimus Warren
She exercises these skills multiple times throughout Mrs. Dalloway, though it can be especially seen in the scene when Septimus commits suicide. During Septimus’s death, Woolf used strong descriptive language to describe the complex nature of Septimus’s mind and in doing this, the scene accurately depicted what it is like to be insane. The slowing of time, the growing darkness in which fills his mind, and the horrific visions of death were so detailed that the audience could painfully internalize these scenes as if it were them who were suffering. In addition, Septimus’s inner thoughts revealed his lack of self-worth and emphasized the depression he succumbed to — “[i]t was their idea of tragedy, not his (Woolf - 149),” the tragedy referring to Septimus’s death. During this scene, Woolf applied her language skills to reflect the pessimistic perspective of Septimus and allowed the audience to have a brief glance into the mind of a suicidal individual. In a conventional sense, Mrs. Dalloway essentially did not have customary climax nor a determined framework, and, in a sense, this was Woolf’s way of purposefully replicating the disarray and confusion found in Septimus. The complex style of Woolf’s writing closely relates to the nature of the human psyche, and she conveys this with her character Septimus Warren