Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Term Paper

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But of all this what could the most observant of friends have said except what a gardener says when he opens the conservatory door in the morning and finds a new blossom on his plant: -- it has flowered; flowered from vanity, ambition, idealism, passion, loneliness, courage, laziness, the usual seeds, which all muddled up (in a room off the Euston Road), made him shy, and stammering, made him anxious to improve himself

Flowering" as utilized in this passage pertains to society's disenchantment of life in England, which is, as enumerated by Woolf, full of "vanity, ambition, idealism, passion, loneliness, courage, laziness.
" Symbolic of the social change occurring in English society, Septimus, Clarissa, as well as Peter, all embodied the English individual who have come to a point wherein s/he "must...come to terms with his past, his present, and his future" (Weiss, 2005:218). In as much as the city hid England's harsh realities, it also became the precursor through which social change is induced and implemented, no matter how tragic Woolf's protagonists' lives turned out to be......

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