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Stream of Consciousness

  • Interior Monologue
  • “Mrs Dalloway said that she would buy the flowers herself.”

Stream of Consciousness Virginia Woolf

  • Virginia Stephen was born in 1882 into a family with strong literary connections.
  • Woolf, along with some of her siblings, was later also a member of an exclusive community of writers and artists who became known as the Bloomsbury Group.

Stream of Consciousness Virginia Woolf

  • In 1912, Virginia married Leonard Woolf and together they set up a publishing business.
  • In March 1941, Woolf committed suicide. She had suffered from bouts of mental illness all her life.

Stream of Consciousness Virginia Woolf

  • Woolf's novel 'Mrs Dalloway' parallels a single day in the lives of two people: Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith.
  • As the day begins, Clarissa buys flowers for a party she will give that night, while Septimus is in Regent's Park listening to the sparrows which, he believes, sing to him in Greek.

By featuring their internal feelings, Woolf allows her characters' thoughts to travel back and forth in time, reflecting and refracting their emotional experiences. This device, often known as 'stream of consciousness’, creates complex portraits of the individuals and their relationships.

  • By featuring their internal feelings, Woolf allows her characters' thoughts to travel back and forth in time, reflecting and refracting their emotional experiences. This device, often known as 'stream of consciousness’, creates complex portraits of the individuals and their relationships.

What does 'stream of consciousness' mean?

  • It's a style of writing evolved by authors at the beginning of the 20th century to express in words the flow of a character's thoughts and feelings.
  • The technique aims to give readers the impression of being inside the mind of the character - an internal view that illuminates plot and motivation in the novel.
  • Thoughts spoken aloud are not always the same as those "on the floor of the mind", as Woolf put it.

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