Feminism In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf is a writer who took her inspirations of her topics from her own life, just as in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. Because her father was a strict and conservative person, she was inclined to her feminist ideology more and more. She was concerned with the thought more and more that why women do not have the same rights as the men? Due to this influence, she began to use these topics more frequently. The feminism as a principle is also included into the novel Mrs. Dalloway, for the reason that Woolf is writing about the after war era when the society had experienced the horrors of the war. According to the feminist ideology, the male-dominated society factors are the reason of the war eruption. Furthermore, she obliquely refers to the

Dalloway is disconcertingly polycentric. There is so much reported thinking going on in the heads of so many characters- with virtually no guidance from the narrator as to what we should think.’’ (Vereen M. Bell, Misreading 94) Woolf uses a special style in her works because she describes the characters’ thoughts and memories and not only the story itself where only the plot matters, and so we can see deeply into the characters mind. It seems as though the characters would have two different lives at the same time. Thus, it could happen that the reader misunderstands the story. There are 3 characters in the novel who relive the past in their thoughts. The first of these characters is the heroin Clarissa, the second is Septimus and the third is Richard. The authoress in this novel writes about the life close after the I.World War and the story takes place in London where we can see into the life of the protagonist, Clarissa. Clarissa is a wealthy and middle-aged woman who decides to organise a party while she remembers back to the past by which the past and the present appears all at once as well as she reassesses her life. In the story, Clarissa organises the party where she invites the friends of her family and her past friends. While she is preparing for the party she remembers back and the memories with Sally and Peter comes to her mind when they were young. In this novel there are much more characters shown by the Virginia Woolf who have various qualities, they are

For that reason, he arrives at Clarissa’s party at last. He is arrogant, brash, and a strong-minded person who is a great example of the male-dominated society because he would like to force his hand on others. He is a real patriarch. The last character of this novel is Hugh Whitebread an editor and journalist of the London Times who was the part of Clarissa’s friendship group. However, he is often criticized, even though he has a good relationship with everybody. He is an attentive gentleman who has a persuasive sympathetic manner. He symbolizes the empathetic men. In conclusion, these characters in this novel were selected consciously and judiciously by Virginia Woolf. There were more female characters in the novel than male because she sought to contrast the women to the men’s life. They had various values whose qualities were given from the life of the authoress because she also fought against the issues as the gender equality, women’s equality because she has also experienced the women’s restriction (a woman could not to school, could not publish her works etc.) She unflinchingly fought against the social norms created by men. She was forced to escape into her own imagination and with her novels, he tried to fight against to this issue. The feminism is still an obscure question that influences other writers to deal