Connections Between Clarissa and Septimus
Hello! I'm Sloane and I am here today to talk to you about the multifaceted depictions in which Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith become interconnected throughout Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. The most noteworthy, outstanding instance of this interconnection may be Clarissa's mental images of Septimus's suicide. However, we have more to unpack here. Clarissa and Septimus at face value seem almost nothing alike, until you count in their mental inner workings; whether this is through seeking an inner peace through marriage, or struggling to be understood on an introspective level. At a first glance, I wasn't so convinced how the Septimus storyline weaved cohesively with Clarissa's overarching plot of her social life, mainly because the intersections between Septimus and Clarissa's day-to-day plots remain minimal: as they've crossed paths but once, yet not even noticing each other. However, the closer the novel drew to an end, the pieces tied up into a c...