Virginia Woolf (1882—1941), as a literary pioneer of western modernism, has impacted the following litterateurs and critics profoundly by her advanced ideology and unique writing skills. This article was mainly intended to analyze and review the distinctive view of life and death in Woolf' s work, and Mrs. Dalloway was decided as the object of study to analyze and review is because that it is the classic masterpiece of Virginia to express her view of life and death. Mrs.Dalloway, which broke the traditional literature—writing skill and used the internal soliloquies and natural images to build the structure of the novel, fully reflected Woolf' s view of life and death and with so much information in it. In recent years there have been many researches of Woolf' s view of life and death. Almost all of them were trying to release the view of life and death of Clarissa herself (or with Septimus Smith), but this article believes all of the main figures in this novel are involved in this kind of view of life and death. This article will research and analyze the relationship between the novel and Clarissa Dalloway, Virginia Woolf and Clarissa Dalloway, the view of life and death and Mrs.Dalloway. At the very beginning, this article will tell some information about Woolf' s personal narratives which can inform the original formation of her view of life and death ; then it will introduce the novel and the composition background briefly which is the demonstrating foundation;it will focus on the creation motive of Mrs.Dalloway afterwards;and the key part is: it would list all the main figures in the novel and analyze them and make the whole story more specific to show that how important the character shaping is to express Woolf' s view of 'life and death'; at the last but not the lest it would show the evidence in the novel which can reflect Woolf' s view of life and death to evaluate its social meaning and value. |
