Sunday, August 28, 2011

Are we allowed to judge Mrs. Dalloway?

One of the questions that was brought up in class last week was, should we be allowed to judge Clarissa based on her thoughts recorded in Mrs. Dalloway? I know that sometimes the things that Clarissa thinks might misrepresent her personality, but I think that it is fair to form an opinion about her as a character solely based on her thoughts. I think that knowing her most private thoughts gives a more honest picture of her than seeing her just on the surface would have. I'm sure that no one wants all of their thoughts to be public, but I think that if you're judging a person based on what they want you to see, you aren't going to get anything close to an accurate picture of them. I actually really like how Virginia Woolf doesn't censor anything, I think that it makes Clarissa seem more real than she would if Mrs. Dalloway had been written in a different style.

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