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Theme Of Time In Mrs Dalloway

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Virginia Woolf 's "Mrs. Dalloway" details the event of a mid-June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London. At the beginning of the novel she goes out to purchase flowers for a gathering, she is facilitating that night. the story then shifts to Septimus Warren Smith, a war veteran who is experiencing depressing because of his involvement in the First World War. In the novel, readers have an open view of the character 's mind. The novel greatly influences time has it helps the characters navigate through past, present, and future. the importance of time in Mrs. Dalloway can be explained by the way Woolf had initially titled the novel "The Hour". Mrs. Dalloway was greatly influenced by Henri Bergson 's theory of time, Bergson concentrated on memory, inside/subjective time, and outside/clock time. In the novel, time is set back, accelerated and moved forward. Woolf uses the idea of time through symbols, for example, the tolling of Big Ben shows the clock time that we take after which is constantly moving forward "for having lived in Westminster- how many years now? over twenty - one feels even during the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical" (45). The language in this section shows Clarissa 's attention to the progression of time.

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