Virginia Woolf / Modernism English S2

Mr. Fleming, English 2, Semester 2,SMCHS

Virginia Woolf narration perspective

first-person, stream of consiousness narration

Who does John represent, and who does Charles represent

John: artist, Charles: realist

What does Virginia Woolf use the elipses for?

To merge an on-going idea/mark a transition to new thought

From what perspective does the narrator in "Solid Objects" describe John and Charles on the beach?

a far-away perspective from up-above

What objects does John collect?

Glass, china, iron

Which story is the most poetic?

"A Haunted House"

What is the mark on the wall?

a snail

What does Whitaker's Table of Precedency symbolize?

patriarchy / patriarcal dominance

What were the couple looking for in "A Haunted House"?

Their lost love

"That is the sort of people they were-very interesting people, and I think of them so often, in such queer places, because one will never see them again, never know what happened next."

Mark on the Wall

"Death was the glass; death was between us; coming to the woman first, hundreds of years ago, leaving the house, sealing all the windows; the rooms were darkened. He left it, left her, went North, went East, saw the stars turned in the Southern sky; sought the house, found it dropped beneath the Downs. "Safe, safe, safe," the pulse of the house beat gladly."

A Haunted House

Along with James Joyce and T.S. Elliot, what did Virginia Woolf pioneer?

stream of consiousness narration

How did Virginia Woolf include a critical feminist perspective in her works?

She centered her stories around female lives/history