![]() Clarissa has stepped out of the milieu of the London life and returned to her life, her sanctuary where living is, to extend the metaphor, as "cool as a vault." Virginia Woolf suggests a certain death-in-life atmosphere in the Dalloway house. ![]() Thus there are two kinds of life to consider here: one is the busy living on the streets of London the other kind is that which is lived within the Dalloway house. As contrast, note what it is that accompanies Clarissa's current thoughts of death: we read that the Dalloway hall is as "cool as a vault." This is the first thing we learn about Clarissa's house when she returns home this is our first impression. ![]() Clarissa, in the midst of noisy and colorful London, thought about death. Also, the lines from Cymbeline that caught her attention concerned death "Fear no more the heat o' the sun / Nor the furious winter's rages" is part of a funeral song. Looking into Hatchards' shop window this morning, she pondered the idea that bits and pieces of herself might continue to live after she had ceased living. ![]() Virginia Woolf does not use these labels, of course, but they are the fundamental considerations at the core of the scene.Īlready Clarissa has mulled over certain aspects of dying. ![]() Yet a few commonplace acts structure the real matter of this scene - Clarissa's thoughts about life and death. There is scarcely any real action in this scene. ![]()
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