![]() ![]() What might this fact indicate about the nature of society and the restrictions it imposes? Does the author imply that character, to a certain extent, is destiny? Yet she has ended up, in spite of her unusual way of life, as a fairly conventional wife and mother. Clarissa Vaughan, on the other hand, apparently enjoys every liberty: freedom to be a lesbian, to come and go and live as she likes. ![]() Virginia and Laura are both, in a sense, prisoners of their eras and societies, and both long for freedom from this imprisonment.Dalloway? Does insanity (or the received idea of insanity) appear to be connected with creative gifts? What does the novel imply about the nature of insanity? Might it in fact be a heightened sanity, or at least a heightened sense of awareness? Would you classify Richard as insane? How does his mental state compare with that of Virginia? Of Laura as a young wife? Of Septimus Smith in Mrs. Cunningham plays with the notions of sanity and insanity, recognizing that there might be only a very fine line between the two states.When and where are flowers described? What significance do they have, and with what events and moods are they associated? How do flowers affect Virginia? Clarissa? ![]()
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