Human Connection Life & Death Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Zhenhua Hong Eng 2850 KTA
Clarissa Dalloway & Septimus Warren Smith Never encounter Connection between each other with different experience on life
Clarissa Dalloway She is enthusiastic, vivacious, self-reflective, alone, regretful Mentally healthy, at age of 52 Care about what other people think of her Organize a party to gather people for communication, external world Struggle about purpose of life, and possibility of happiness Struggle from her marriage, sacrifice her passion for a wealthy upper- class life Accept her life as what it is, living with lifeless
Septimus Warren Smith Fought in WWI Physically healthy at age of 30’s Mentally illness, suffer from shell shock, PTSD Struggle from his internal world, and fear of external world Middle-class life with a happy marriage Desire for life Release himself by commit suicide for mentally freedom
Both characters appear in a parallel structure, never intersect But they represent the different perspective of life and death Same ideology, view life as nature, living with fear Both struggle from life and finding privacy