ENG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Lady B, Social Change, Orgasm

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 3320
• Professor: Kelly St- Jacques

Document Summary

Septimus taught manliness in army: got through war by not feeling. Against instincts of self-preservation not it"s appalling. Woolf had same ambiguous feelings about world/society as clarissa. S alienated from society which was trying to get back to normal life. S and mrs. k definition of class problems: mrs. k lost position because she won"t say all germans are evil, how vulnerable a working woman can be. Sense of novel taking place in the city: london presents some qualities of the waste land. Capitalism competing with others: sir william bradshaw, hugh, lady b. Richard and clarissa, harsher versions of themselves. 2211-12 but proportion has a sister to his patients. : grey is sinister, contrast with clarissa wants people to be themselves. Cry for individuality: colonization and empire pushing people to go, full of existential issues. Everyone has to come to terms with this.