Exploring the Stream of Consciousness in the Novel “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf

Abstract

The article discusses the narrative technique known as "stream of consciousness" and focuses on its implementation in Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway." The authors of the article analyze examples where Virginia Volf achieves her aim through the artistic usage of literary devices such as imagery, metaphors, allusions, personification, hyperbole, irony, exaggeration, and syntactical literal devices such as one-member sentences, elliptical sentences, repetitions, expressive word-order in the sentence, fragmentary presentation of thoughts, unconventional use of punctuation, interjections, semicolons, and etc. The research demonstrates that Virginia’s writing style focuses more on the emotional and psychological processes within the character than the interaction with the physical world or with other characters.