“ ‘Who can, what can asked Mrs. Dalloway (thinking it was shocking to be interrupted at eleven o’clock on the morning of the day she was giving a party). So after the light in the old lady’s house out, the heroine also ends her inner thought naturally. The following line is a combination of thoughts and actions of both But it covers about ten pages as much of the scene takes place within the minds. For new ideas, new ways of experience, call for new forms of expression. The two lines join together when Sir William Bradshaw tells Clarissa, in the midst of her party, of Septimus’s death, which inspires her vivid reverie of life and death at the end. London:Macmillan Education,1991, Alexander, Jean. As we can see, the clock time often shows the events in the two plots occuring nearly at the same time. B. In Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness novels, we find that characters are characterized not by describing the external details and facts such as what the character wears and where the character lives, but by describing the internal world of the character such as the stream of consciousness of the character. What is stream of consciousness? ” “She knew nothing; no language,no history. 15:30. The next few lines also emphasize Woolf’s As a result, we may infer that Clarissa arrives home around 11:00 when the plane is flying over the area near Buckingham Palace. 10:00 Clarissa is on her way to the florist 11:00 People are watching the plane outside Buckingham Palace; Septimus and Rezia are watching the plane in the Regent’s Park; Clarissa arrives home. Truly, a huge gap broadens between the writer and the reader. Since she has understood the transience of individual life and the eternality of the universe,she can calmly regard death as a kind of release and the means to get merged with the universe. She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing; all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that. For Peter and Clarissa, the past they shared has become a permanent part of their present lives. However, the most important literary genre of modernism is the novel. Ibid. She is, from first to last, intensely conscious of making a different thing out of the novel. It’s boring and frightening,” the reader might say. Symbolic Image: Death Death is a very typical and cored theme in Mrs. Dalloway, so Virginia Woolf uses many images to discuss the death and life and to talk about the revelant things. But when she learns that her husband is invited to Millicent Bruton’s lunch party while she is not asked to go,her contented mood suddenly changes. And Clarissa’s plunge into the morning air as she bursts open the French windows, her participation in the rising and falling rooks, is the complement of Septimus’s plunge to death from the high windows at the end of the book. Furthermore, internal and personal moments like the few anecdotes discussed so far reveal the most alluring aspect of this method of storytelling, which is the potential disarray that could come out of such uses of the literary device. When she is walking towards Bond Street,the idea that she must inevitably cease completely some day comes to her mind. Woolf switches back from Some Examples of Time Transferring in the novel Here we mention the time transfer between subjective and objective views which actually can be referred to the shifts that often takes us from “clock time” into “mind time”. The reader is able to understand that this tragic moment in Clarissa’s life was still not enough to make her a resentful woman, always remaining how she always has been. London: Hogarth, Woolf, V., (2003), Mrs.Dalloway, 2003, Collector’s Library, London, www.sparknotes.com/lit/dalloway/characters/, www.diacronia.ro/ro/indexing/details/A14567/pdf, www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/mrs-dalloway-by-virginia-woolf-book-of-a-lifetime-drawn-in-from-the-very-first-sentence-10164866.html. To create such a character, the multi-leveled mode of characterization is the best technique. “She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. We are able to come to understand that Woolf strives to allow her readers to truly understand and know her characters on a much more personal level, by truly making the characters more real. Dalloway': BA-thesis in literature; Grin Verlag, Woolf, V., (1966) Mr.Bennett and Mrs. Brown. (Where was he this morning for instance? ,p. 169 ?Apter E. Virginia Woolf, A Study of her Novel. Obviously, woolf uses the symbolic image of the Big Ben connect two persons together,who don not know each other at all, and quite skillfully reveal the novel’s theme with the help of the characters’ different experiences and opinions about the time.