He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.Mrs Dalloway is a novel that features two main characters and two different worldviews. On the one hand, there is Clarissa Dalloway, who being labelled as Mrs, symbolises her marital and social confinement. On the other, the readers meet Septimus Warren Smith, who is suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. The lack of conventionally linear narrative and the stream of consciousness embedded in the text represents the authors take on the complexities of human existence and the ambiguity of reality. While Septimus appears mad as the war memories are haunting him, Clarissa is assumingly sane, with her existential troubles being centred around the midlife crisis both, however, share an astute sensibility about societal maladies of postwar Britain. Even though the two characters never meet, they are inextricably connected. The story takes a twist when Clarissa in her quintessential midlife meets her first love, Peter Walsh and Septimus madness takes a dramatic manifestation. Will Clarissa take any steps for the sake of her first love, or will she stay devoted to the societal pressure and her status as a statesmans wife? What will become of Septimus madness?The novel was developed from Woolfs earlier short story entitled Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street. It takes you to the industrialised society, the hustle and bustle of London to...

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