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Eliot |
Woolf |
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Passing of time (EdST & CariC)
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we hear the passing of time in
both works
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Clock time vs. mind time
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Suspension of time-- epiphanies,
back to primordial time, stillness, silence
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hurry up, please it's time.. chiming
of word "time"
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Chiming of Big Ben
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Rezia says to Septimus, "It's
time"
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mechinical time of the clocks
vs. the subjective time of the characters
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mental and spatial grids of the
novel: map of London, strokes of Big Ben
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Loss of innocence (AmyB)
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Unreal City (AmyB and MattS)
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Unreal city of London=limbo
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Also the desert=city (desolation)
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City absorbs people
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City is unreal for Septimus--what
keeps breaking through is Evans, the war, the desert of the front (no man's
land)
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Is the party at the end real or
unreal?
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Loss of first innocent love (TanayaW)
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Clarissa married Richard b/bc
he was safe
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Septimus didn't marry Lucrezia
for love either
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Same objects in Clarissa's drawing
room: cadlesticks Nd dolphin (DoCh)
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Motif of scapegoat (EdSt)
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Nadir/ sparagmos
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Septimus "Drowned sailor on shore
of theworld"
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Septimus's death is the sacrifice
that allows Clarissa to live.
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Flattening of Affect (inability
to feel)
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Both Clarissa and Septimus
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Homosexuality (EdSt)
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similar moments of enlightenment/
transport/ ecstasy
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Hyacinth girl = Jean Verdun
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Sally Seaton = crocus girl (AMyB)
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These fragments...modernist method
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How they both use allusion --
as political identification
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These fragments.. take away usual
connectivity of poem
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by de-emphsizing plot, you have
the same effect of fragmenting, but creating a new reality out of juxtapositions
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