published in 1925 Virginia Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway, a novel which chronicles a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a woman of high class London after the First World War . Apparently the story that Woolf intended merely tell us how to prepare your party hostess, however, thanks to style the author takes the time to write the novel we realize it is not just about Clarissa Dalloway but the consciousness of different characters that can be found in society between the wars.
perspective and narrative style found in "The sr the thoughts and feelings experienced by both Clarissa and the other characters that surround and affect its life in some way, doing that little by little we readers know and understand the main protagonists. In addition we also find forms of dialogue in both direct and in indirect way, but we will not stop it because, as we have said, is the monologue narrated the important aspect of the work.
The idea of time as a common place will be discussed later, we now proceed to study the time from the perspective of pragmatics, not semantics, taking into account three categories í as: order, Duration and frequency. As already mentioned, which is told in "Mrs. Dalloway" is a day in the life of Clarissa, Woolf respects as far as possible the natural chronological order of events, however, the work is full of flashbacks which prevents us from asserting that it is a linear narrative. With regard to duration, the natural time history are maso least twelve hours and the time the speech is set to 218 pages (issue studied), we must emphasize at this point is that "Mrs. Dalloway" is a play that stops especially in the stream of consciousness of the charactersrather in describing Clarissa's preparations for her party does (which is what we think at first). Finally, considering the often say that we have a relatively unique in that what happens once is counted once.
Let us now study the main characters in the play. Many people appear, but we wanted to highlight the importance of four of them: Clarissa Dalloway, Sally Seton, Peter Walsh and Septimus Warren Smith.
Clarissa Dalloway, the main character, constantly trying to balance the world around her with her own personal and domestic life. Finds itself in the world of London society to beDad and quiet is the fact of having married Richard Dalloway rather than with his former partner, Peter Walsh, but it is impossible to get that peace of mind as the memories never leave. Clarissa constantly feels that its existence could have been otherwise, which is somewhat uncomfortable with his life, but ends up accepting it.
Sally Seton, Peter Walsh are the people that most know Clarissa, her best friend and an old flame. The first is presented for most of the work in memory of Clarissa, the party only when it finally appears in person. We know from one side to a young Sally, a woman of character that leaves ever from Michelinre clear what you want or think without worrying about what others are saying about it, when at last we know the woman she has become Lady Rosseter, we see that he has married and has raised a family (even though the substance remains the crazy Sally). In addition, this character serves to show the bisexual character of the protagonist as one of his memories is clear that Sally could be the true love of Clarissa. As for Peter Walsh, he is the couple who had Clarissa before marrying Richard, we can describe as a romantic adventurer. The day that happens the site is back in India and will visit Clarissa, then note(Who also suffered from mental disorders so that we can relate in some way with this character) decides to give Septimus the power to recognize the truth from the madness, to Clarissa, on the other hand, would like to identify reality . At first glance Septimus and Clarissa characters may look different but we finally realize that they are not as different characters (Septimus could function as a double of Clarissa) somehow they share their thoughts and fears to life. Even we can see that sanity appears to Clarissa is increasingly identified with the madness of Septimus. Finally, to escape their problems Septimus decides to end his life, the connectiontions with it. For example, the Big Ben marks the steady pace of time, which makes the characters look older and become aware of death. Clarissa, in particular, note the passing of time especially when he is reunited with his old friends, Sally and Peter, which shows how much time has passed since his youth. The time is so important for the structure to the characters in the novel that Virginia Woolf was about to name it "The Hours."
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