Clarissas Creativity Flashcards
“It was an offering; to combine, to create; but to whom?”
Creativity concerning her parties
Ascending tricolon- as each each section is building to something however withers away with a sense of uncertainty “but to whom?”
“An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow it was her gift”
What’s the effect of using language like “perhaps” and “anyhow”?
After defending herself and her parties, she begins to question herself. Without the use of these words she would seem confident and sure of herself.
“Making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh”
Peter describes it as “that woman’s gift, of making a world of her own wherever she happened to be”
Also reflects the wave motif- give the impression of collecting and releasing
Represents the mind continuously honking and processing- Clarissa’s heightened senses (Woolf’s description of waves of impression “a shower of innumerable atoms”)
“And she felt quite continuously a sense of their existence; and she felt what a waste; and she felt what a pity; and she felt if only they could be brought together”
What is this about?
Techniques?
This is Clarissa’s reasoning for her parties when having to defend them after peters criticisms
Polysyndetic Structure: repetition of ‘and’
Anaphora: repetition of the phrase “and she felt”
Gives the impression of a politicians speech defending and supporting their views. It’s as if she’s rehearsed the defence in her head.
