弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫作品达洛卫夫人分析
《达洛卫夫人》是20世纪英国文坛最伟大的女性作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作,整部作品以文中的上流社会妇女克拉里萨·达洛卫为线索,讲述她在准备晚会招待客人的那一天内,伦敦的事迹已经她周身的人(包括她自己)的所闻所见。
小说里充斥着对战争的谴责,对人性的批判、对生的失望、死的向往、对上流社会的虚幻、宗教的无力、女性的卑微等做了大量描述和反抗意识,这也是现今国内外对弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的研究最主要的几个方向。本文主要探究的是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫对生死的独特观点。
本文通过对弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的生平的阐述以及对达洛卫夫人这部作品的内容,写作背景,创作动机的概述,对作品中独特的生死观的产生做一个铺垫; 接下来通过对作品中几对主要人物性格的分析来体现这种生死观的形成;然后回到作品中,在其间找出直接论据和间接论据证明这种生死观的存在和体现;最后总结陈述对这种生死观的客观认识和其在现代社会的影响。
关键字:达洛卫夫人,弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 The Brief Introduction of Mrs Dalloway
The whole story can be summarized by what Mrs.Dalloway and the people around her, and Mr.Septimus and people around him did, and thought in a day. The direct description of Mrs.Dalloway is not too much, which was equal for almost every main character (Clarissa Dalloway, Richard Dalloway, Peter Wash, Hugh Whitbread, Septimus Smith, Rezia Smith) . Virginia described them in the same length, and even the pedestrians (Maisie Johnson, Mrs.Dempster) were described in details. So it is reasonable to believe that Mrs.Dalloway is not the protagonist but the clue because in the end almost all the characters were more or less connected with her.even though there were no specific plots but with the alarms on time by Big Ben. It can be briefly divided into seven pieces:
What Clarissa Dalloway saw and thought after she decided to go out to buy flowers for the dinner party herself;
The description of the halcyon days in London after the war, meanwhile the Smiths coming to the story;
Peter Wash visiting Mrs Dalloway and what they thought and recalled;
What Peter continuing to think after living Clarissa’s house and hanging around the street where Mrs Smith complained and Septimus created illusions;
The lunch hosted by Miss Brush who invited both Richard Dalloway and Hugh Whitbread;
What they (Mrs Dalloway, Miss Kilman and Elisabeth) thought while Miss Kliman and Elisabeth hanging out;
The beginning of the party.
All of the story, without forceful humanistic care and cultural foundation, which was just full of balderdash from the main characters of the book was not attached importance to the audiences at that time. However as time went on, the light and brilliance in it, was gradually discovered by modern literary critics for its exquisite natural emotion, strong super—realism, excellent writing—skill of stream of consciousness and advanced ideology and analysis of life and death. Especially, the advanced ideology and analysis of life and death was expressed almost everywhere in the novel.
1.2 The significance of this article
Virginia Woolf (1882—1941), as a literary pioneer of western modernism, has impacted the following litterateurs and critics profoundly by her advanced ideology and unique writing skills. This article was mainly intended to analyze and review the distinctive view of life and death in Woolf' s work, and Mrs. Dalloway was decided as the object of study to analyze and review is because that it is the classic masterpiece of Virginia to express her view of life and death.
Mrs.Dalloway, which broke the traditional literature—writing skill and used the internal soliloquies and natural images to build the structure of the novel, fully reflected Woolf' s view of life and death and with so much information in it. In recent years there have been many researches of Woolf' s view of life and death. Almost all of them were trying to release the view of life and death of Clarissa herself (or with Septimus Smith), but this article believes all of the main figures in this novel are involved in this kind of view of life and death.
This article will research and analyze the relationship between the novel and Clarissa Dalloway, Virginia Woolf and Clarissa Dalloway, the view of life and death and Mrs.Dalloway. At the very beginning, this article will tell some information about Woolf' s personal narratives which can inform the original formation of her view of life and death ; then it will introduce the novel and the composition background briefly which is the demonstrating foundation;it will focus on the creation motive of Mrs.Dalloway afterwards;and the key part is: it would list all the main figures in the novel and analyze them and make the whole story more specific to show that how important the character shaping is to express Woolf' s view of 'life and death'; at the last but not the lest it would show the evidence in the novel which can reflect Woolf' s view of life and death to evaluate its social meaning and value.
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