Mrs. Dalloway Revised: The Sense of Change and Disillusionment

Year 2017, Issue: 38, 123 - 138, 18.12.2017

Eda Burcu Çetinkaya , Atalay Gündüz , Mahinur Akşehir Uygur

https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.376809

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf is an acknowledged modernist
novel which includes the sense of change and disillusionment as modernist
elements. Woolf provides readers with illustrations of characters highlighting
illusional reality and disillusionment throughout the novel. Although Clarissa
Dalloway is not depicted as a disillusioned character within previous studies,
both Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith represent disillusioned
individuals in a modernist society. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyze
the sense of change and disillusionment in Mrs.
Dalloway via examining Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith as
disillusioned characters who share similarities. To this end, the issues of
social approval, marriage, war and trust towards institutions as products of
civilization are discussed within the scope of this article.

Keywords

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, modernist literature, disillusionment

Mrs. Dalloway’in İncelenmesi: Modernist Öğeler Olarak Değişim ve Gerçeğe Uyanış Olgusu

Abstract

Virginia Woolf’un Mrs. Dalloway
(1925) isimli eseri modernist öğeler olan değişim ve gerçeğe uyanış olgusunu
içeren tanınmış modernist bir romandır. Woolf, eser boyunca ilüzyonel
gerçekliği ve gerçeğe uyanışı vurgulayan karakter örneklerini okuyuculara sunmaktadır.
Önceki çalışmalarda Clarissa Dalloway gerçeğe uyanmış bir karakter olarak
tasvir edilmemesine ragmen, hem Clarissa Dalloway hem de Septimus Warren Smith
modernist bir toplumdaki gerçeğe uyanmış bireyleri temsil etmektedirler. Bu
nedenle, bu makalenin amacı benzerlikler taşıyan, sanrılardan arınmış Clarissa
Dalloway ve Septimus Warren Smith karakterlerini inceleyerek Mrs. Dalloway adlı eserdeki değişim ve
gerçeğe uyanış olgusunu analiz etmektir. Bu bağlamda toplumsal onay, evlilik,
savaş ve medeniyetin ürünleri olan kurumlara duyulan güven meseleleri bu
makalenin kapsamı dahilinde tartışılmaktadır.

Keywords

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, modernist edebiyat, gerçeğe uyanış

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