Mrs Dalloway Quotes Flashcards
(14 cards)
Her favourite thing?
‘was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June’
Proliferation of semi-colons savours the moment, and alliteration links the key factors - grammar places these things in apposition
England’s capital is alive on the page?
‘the traffic thinned; motor cars, tinkling, darting, succeeded the lumber of vans’
City compared to nature?
‘thick foliage of the squares’
The inhabitants are united by the chimes of big ben?
Big Ben’s “sensible sound,”
Sibilance translates unifying sonority of the bell
The reaction to the motor car?
‘Everything had come to a standstill’
Edgar J. Watkiss says it was ‘The Proime Minister’s kyar’
Septimus’s reaction to the motor car?
‘The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames’
This scene is unstable and threatening, conjuring a dream-like reminiscence of his battlefield experience
Septimus interpreting the world?
‘The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes.’
Peter Walsh’s reaction to the ambulance?
‘one of the triumphs of civilisation’
‘the efficiency, the organisation, the communal spirit of London’
The reaction to the Prime Minister at the party?
they saw ‘this majesty passing, this symbol of what they all stood for, English society’
The effect of war in Bond Street?
‘pausing for a moment at the window of a glove shop, where, before the War, you could buy almost perfect gloves’
Richard Dalloway’s reaction to children and the homeless?
‘it did make his blood boil to see little creatures of five or six crossing Piccadilly alone’
the fault was in ‘the detestable social system’
he did not know ‘what could be done for female vagrants like that poor creature’
Clarissa’s reaction to the homeless?
‘can’t be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life’
Peter Walsh as a flaneur?
He starts to follow a young woman past the statue of General Gordon who was killed in Khartoum in 1865
Male gaze was associated with forces of imperialism
‘There was a dignity about her’
‘Well, I’ve had my fun’
Walking in London?
‘“I love walking in London,” said Mrs Dalloway. “Really, it’s better than walking in the country”’
