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On the Themes in Michael Cunningham’s the Hours

Author: ZhaoLianYue
Tutor: DuanXiaoYing
School: Hebei Normal
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Modernism Dilemma Death Important moments
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2008
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Woolf's Mrs Dalloway \\Their dilemma of the survival of the state as well as reflections on life and death and uneasy end by digestion of the ultimate meaning praise epiphany the moment (Woolf's \In this paper, the modernist perspective implies the existence of \This article describes section provides an overview of the impact of the thinking of the fiction writing background and modernism, especially the writer Virginia Woolf, to clarify the modernist theory origin of the three main themes in the novel, and describes the purpose of this article. The early twentieth century modernism prevalent human representative of the field of literature Woolf, modernist writers in the field of natural science, philosophy and art under the influence of new ideas, novel content and formal innovation and exploration. The spirit of revolution in this century, social groups and individuals have had a profound impact. The first chapter discusses the dilemma faced by the individual in the context of modernism. Between madness and reason, freedom and bondage, alone and coexistence of these antagonistic state, independent and sensitive individuals sought self as well as the meaning and value of life, but in real life is always a dilemma inevitable. A concrete manifestation of this contradiction state is the belief in the universal plight of individual in the context of the lack of modern culture. Novel, three women were living in the early twentieth century, World War II, as well as the different years of the end of the century and Anglo different social and cultural, among them three sensitive women (Virginia Woolf) are in real life various dilemmas experienced individuals struggling with contradictions. The second chapter explores the theme of the novel is about life and death. The two levels of the death in the flesh of the mortal and spiritual demise triggered the thinking of the individual life and death. Are not born of human flesh of mortal confrontation or negative, but as a reference to the value of life and the meaning, in some way caused by individual epiphany of life and death to bring another level of new students. Compared with the mortality of the flesh and the demise of the spirit even more devastating. Cultural context of modernism, the spiritual demise fear and resistance led to individual thinking and insight to life at a deeper level. Choose to continue to live in contrast to the elite (such as writers, poets) novel active choice the death touched ordinary people in different ways over death (a suicide attempt or seeing others commit suicide), not only contains a rich life and death associated also reflects there is no boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary, ordinary individuals will sublimate epiphany brought about by the death of life on the extraordinary true sense. The third chapter discusses the core theme of the time. Uninterrupted passage of time itself with its full meaning, the stream of consciousness of the characters breakthrough moment of his ilk to reach the essence of life, that is certainly the value of every moment of life, the meaning of life in an extraordinary moment. Characters perception of time the traditional realism linear concept of time as well as the pursuit of the ultimate meaning of life development to the modernist philosophies advocated the concept of time and space as well as the presence of the free. Of the injection process, the experience of values ??to the character of consciousness narrative, makes it more than a single time and space limits of the freedom of the spirit in real life moments. Woolf, one of the important topics of \As the important thinking of the grand themes of the time, the idea of ??the important moments (born the moment) showing through the dualism of life and death, the material and the spiritual, ordinary and extraordinary, and so the significance of. It is as if a beam of light to illuminate the perplexity and confusion of modern secular life, given the value of self-sufficiency daily life, and certainly the meaning of life and spirit.

On the Themes in Michael Cunningham’s the Hours

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