ENG110Y5 Quiz: Mrs.Dalloway-2
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Septimis is the mentally scared war veteran. People assumed she had bipolar disease but it was never confirmed: people would blame society for their problems, after the war people"s stigma remained, women"s mental suffering was known as hysteria, derived from the greek word for uterus. People said that the female body was weak, frail: wolfe understood this stigmatization, moral insanity, dr. salvage was treating people and they had facts of hallucination and depression. Depression= laziness, moral depression- they want to fall back out of their free will. Shakespeare: ts elliots the wasteland- the idea that the old master plots are dead, 94- septimus went to save an england that made a masterplot of it"s moral and political institutions. He is making his way in a world that no longer makes sense to him: after the chaos of the war people wanted to get back to work.
