Matur Literature: mrs. dalloway, the picture of dorian gray, all my sons

susceptible, impressionable

anfällig, beeinflussbar

opinionated

rechthaberisch

persuasive

überzeugend

frivolous

belanglos, oberflächlich

amoral

amoralisch

subversive

subversiv, umstürzlerisch

elope

durchbrennen

to appall sb

jmd schockieren

idolatry

Vergötterung, Götzenverehrung

devoting

widmen

pastimes

Zeitvertreib

objection

Widerspruch, Einwand

Aestheticism

Ästhetizismus

to mold

formen

epigram

Sinngedicht

social conventions

soziale Gepflogenheiten

hypocrisy

Heuchelei

hedonism

Genusssucht, Vergnügungssucht

virtues

Tugenden

melodramatic heritage

melodramisches Erbe

suitor

Verehrer

homoerotic

homoerotisch

dekadent and unmanly

entartet und unmännlich

to depict

darstellen

misogynistic

frauenfeindlich, frauenverachtend

insistence

Beharrlichkeit

amend

verbessern

pernicious

schädlich

deterioration

Verschlechterung

sodomy

Unzucht

ever-widening gulf

immer größer werdende Kluft

conscience

Gewissen

ephemeral

vergänglich, kurzlebig

depravity

Verdorbenheit

disdain

Verachtung

How can the character Mrs. Dalloway relate to Virigina?

She saw through the eyes of the mentally unstable and Virginia really struggled after the death of her parents and brother. After WWI Frueds influence on psychology became important to her.

What is the Blooms bury Group?

formed in 1904, it was create around Virigina and her siblings and friends who had graduated from Cambridge. I twas a group of intellectuals who would get together for lively debate. She included Leonard Woolf who was a writer in it who she later married in 1912 even though he struggled with depression (dr. said they shouldn't have kids)

When was Mrs. Dalloway written ? 1925

1925

What is the Hogarth Press?

a very important and well off publisher who published only the best works in the time. I believe Mrs D was printed by Hogarth

What was Woolf's stance on gender issues and feminism?

While wollstonecraft was figtign to prove that women have intellect, woolf was talking about what women lack in the 19thC. She said that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she wants to right fiction and that ia big problem cause it is very rare.

Background info on Mrs. Dalloway?

written from 1922-1924 and was called The Hours. Woolf was initially very critical of Dalloway as a socialite and someone who spent all their life accruing social capital and pushing an issue. She believed Mrs Dalloway was insane Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway

What is the relationship of Septimus and Clarissa?

both experience london in one day in June 19223 but never meet and are connected indirectly, their paths cross both react os imilar occurrences in London (i.e. a car backfiring on Bond St. Clarissa hears about sucied at her party). Cliarssa thinks about Septimus death

How do we know Mrs. Dalloway doesn't do much for herself?

The first sentence says "Mrs D said she would buy the flowers herslef" implying that she deosnt normally buy stuff for herself. meaning she is in high scoail standing.

What's the difference between using the name Mrs. Dalloway and using Clarissa?

Mrs. Dalloway speaks about her relation to her husband and tha tshe is doing her wifely duty

What is the style that Mrs. D is written in ?

modernism where th enovel imitates the movement tof human mind and belief in art and its transformative abilties. It is crafted tightened and shows parallels in stories (btwn clarissa and septimus the veteran), motifs, and written in rhythmic stenches often. IT illuminates th emend by showing events outside. Every day our mind reciees tons of impressions from everything we do see and hear.

What is a stream of consciousness and how is it shown in Mrs. D?

term was introduced by William Janes and it describes a conitnous flow of thoughts feeling and impression that make up our inner mind. We have many things in our mind but at any one time one or a few are the focus of our attention. When we read fictional novels we are eavesdropping on the flow of a characters minds and thoughts.-> Woolf wants to control this stream of thoughts of her characters and turn it into art. In Mrs. D they shif between various characters thoughts and comments with the 3rd person indirect speech

Important Quote: Internal - time can be dilated and contracted

As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Where there is nothing, Peter Walsh said to himself; feeling hollowed out, utterly empty within. Clarissa refused me, he thought. He stood there thinking, Clarissa refused me. Ah, said St. Margaret's, like a hostess who comes into her drawing-room on the very stroke of the hour and finds her guests there already. I am not late. No, it is precisely half-past eleven, she says. Yet, though she is perfectly right, her voice, being the voice of the hostess, is reluctant to inflict its individuality. Some grief for the past holds it back; some concern for the present. It is half-past eleven, she says, and the sound of St. Margaret's glides into the recesses of the heart and buries itself in ring after ring of sound, like something alive which wants to confide itself, to disperse itself, to be, with a tremor of delight, at rest—like Clarissa herself, thought Peter Walsh, coming down the stairs on the stroke of the hour in white. It is Clarissa herself, he thought, with a deep emotion, and an extraordinarily clear, yet puzzling, recollection of her, as if this bell had come into the room years ago, where they sat at some moment of great intimacy, and had gone from one to the other and had left, like a bee with honey, laden with the moment. But what room? And why had he been so profoundly happy when the clock was striking?"

Black bolded - depressiveness, emptiness, dark imagery, death, a sense of ending, mental illness

Blue - time - movement of two perceptions of tempo

What is the purpose of time in Mrs. D?

Oringally the book was called The Hours(*hint hint). tTme and space are not epreinced int he same way by all the characters: the experimental richness of some moments and how others might stand stale . Therfore time is subjective. For science time is made of discern measurable entities like minutes seconds and hours

What is the role of trauma and war in Mrs D?

while Mrs D day is going on, so is Septimus Smith. He is a veteran who struggles with the trauma of war and in 1916 he was in the battle of the somme where 60000 Brits died. he struggles from shell-shock and hysteria. After the war society was not ready to deal with the mass amount of death, and PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) felt by veterans. It is conflicting because there is so much violence in the war and then the vets come back and life just seems to go on.

Why did Septimus fight in the war?

fought for idealistic reasons. He wanted to come back to a place where there was peace and solace. Wife wants the family structure back that they had before the war but now Septomus finds the idea of children disgusting.

Who is Dr. Bradshaw?

Sepitmus left for the war to fight and he left a country o literature and history etc. but came back to one that was an oppressive system that worhsipped proption, eugenics, and shutting ideas down.

What is Septimus crime?

He knows nothing is wrong with him but society wants to find something wrong with him and he almost confesses to one but a the last minute doesn't remember that there was one.

What is the role of the city in Mrs. D?

solid connections between characters and the passing of people and how all lives are connected. London is a type of character int he novel with landmarks like St James Park, detials, sounds like Big Bena and cars being reference often. London also displayed a toe of 'consumers culture' where buying as everything and there was a clear conflict in modernism whether art was above consumerist culture or vice versa.

What is the role of England in MRs D?

London is an economic powerhouse and center of the empire. She is writing about the peak of British empire where it controlled 25% of the world. There was a feeling of vulnerablility aft erg the war the though. Even though everyone walks about the city without interacting, everyone is connected because they notice similar things happenign aroun them.

Feminism and Woolf?

She has a cynical view of socialites and lites that revolve around parties an dmoney. Suffrage movement progressed over the early 20thC. Womens apsirpiratoins were affected by their social class, ex. Mrs D is trying to promote her husbands positoin. Miss Kilman had class tension while she liked Elizabeth the daugher, she did not like larissa the mom.

the apple tree

is a memorial for Larry

George's hat

It used to belong to his father. It shows us he now sympathizes with him.

p-40's

the airplanes with the cracked cylinder heads

November 25

Larry's favorable day

astrology

Kate asks Frank to check Larry's horroscope

Larry's clothes and shoes

are all shined and cleaned. It shows us that Kate is still waiting for Larry to come back

200 men

the number of men Chris was in command of in his company

the letter

Larry's suicide letter makes Keller see what he did wrong and leads to his suicide

grape juice

George's favorite drink as a kid. Kate makes him grape juice to connect him to his childhood when their families used to be on good terms

21 pilots

21 pilots died during the war because of the cracked cylinder heads

The Holy Family

Sue calls the Kellers that way sarcastically

J.O. Keller, Inc

Keller's company

Christopher Keller, Inc

how Keller wants the company to be called after he gives it to Chris

a Christmas card

Annie and George didn't even send their father a Christmas card while he's in prison

pneumonia

the reason Keller gives for not coming to the office the day the cracked cylinder heads were shipped

a star

the star of one's honesty

a bullet

the way Keller kills himself; the way he says he'll kill himself if there's anything bigger than family

a pair of socks

Chris tells Annie how a soldier in his company gave him a pair of socks as an example of being better

nickels and dimes

Joe uses this term to explain that many people back home were looking to make a profit during the War. It refers to the theme of War Profiteering.