ENG287H1 Lecture Notes - To The Lighthouse, Mimesis, Free Indirect Speech
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Stream of consciousness: goes into particular characters heads and follows their chain of thought no continuity, random movement of thought, long, run on sentences. Not just jumping from topic to topic in someone"s head, you jump from person to person and their thoughts. It"s hard to remember who is actually talking. Jumps from scene to scene and different times, etc. It"s hard to know who is speaking: the word thought" occurs more than the main characters" names, extreme use of stream of consciousness. Knowledge is not a prominent occurrence for these characters. 20, the brown stocking begins with ch. 5 of to the lighthouse: never did anybody look so sad. Woolf must be okay with the reader not knowing who is talking. Maybe she doesn"t even know what is going on with her characters. There are many interpretations thought this novel. Woolf was trying to create a work in which there is no one source of meaning.
