1. Human Connection Life & Death Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Zhenhua Hong
Eng 2850 KTA

2. Clarissa Dalloway & Septimus Warren Smith
Never encounter
Connection between each other
with different experience on life

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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