Response #1DUE: Thursday, September 9thon Canvas
Choose one of the following questions and construct a 1-2 page (250-500 word) typed response. Responses should demonstrate your knowledge of the texts and the relationships between them. Make sure that you go beyond plot summary to make an argument about the relationships between the texts, their specific details, and their cultural contexts.
1. How does Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway depict the impact of World War I? Consider how she represents the haunting presence of WWI in the characters’ present lives. How is a postwar culture represented in this work? You might consider the novel in relation to the poems written by Brooke, Sassoon, and Owen to make your case.
2. Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway had a working title of “The Hours.” Time resounds throughout the novel, signifying meaning to each of the characters. Choose a perspective—or a character’s perspective—on time to make a case for Woolf’s sense of her times, perhaps of modernity itself
3. Freud’s theories offer an interesting context for Woolf’s work. How does the novel’s ending depict the struggle (or even reconciliation) of inner and outer selves, conscious and unconscious drives? Does the ending resolve anything?
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