In some moments she experiences keen anguish at her loneliness and she figures that no one is able to understand her except Sally Seton. Her feelings of disconnectedness persist especially at the evening dinner she hosts for her friends and acquaintances. She has become estranged from her husband and she continues to pretend before the eyes of her social circle. The theme of alienation rears its head again in Mrs. Septimus is degraded to an outcast from society who cannot function anymore within it. Septimus’s insanity detaches him from society as he internalizes and in the process estranges himself.
Dalloway since one sees the wide disconnect among characters. Dalloway and other characters, laying bare their thought patterns and molding the novel to suit.Īlienation comes into play in Mrs. Woolf continually exploits this stream of consciousness method with the protagonist, Mrs. Here Woolf takes the reader into the inner consciousness of Septimus, revealing the topics on which the mind dwells and to which it erratically transitions. The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames” (Woolf 2003, p. As a lunatic, he rambles on as he meticulously observes nature one day where “upon them a curious pattern like a tree, Septimus thought and this gradual drawing together of everything to one centre before his eyes as if some horror had come almost to the surface and was about to burst in flames, terrified him. Dalloway is populated by characters undergoing intense mental suffering and struggles between extremes such as Septimus Warren Smith, who experiences shell-shock or post-traumatic stress disorder owing to his WWI service. As a highly psychological narrative, Mrs. The confusion of the narrative enhances modernist perception of the disintegration of society and a world in a state of chaos, shaped only by the individual interpretation. Dalloway, at times the sentences are very long. The language of the mind is very critical because during the modernist period, the freedom of the mind and the focus of the lack of structure mirroring the failures of institution. There are flashbacks and fast-forwards in time and sometimes the train of ideas never continues. Dalloway explores with the stream of consciousness technique in which the flow of language is as incoherent and discursive as human thoughts.
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