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Pages 4-5 portray Mrs Dalloway in a positive state of mind, as she feels immersed in the moment of walking in London and its inhabitants. However, this is soon broken up by her reflections on Peter in page 6

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Mrs Dalloway sets out to buy flowers for her party

She immediately thinks back to her teenage years in Bourton, and reminisces about her relationship with Peter

Mrs Dalloway remembers the tragedy of the war

She bumps into Hugh Whitbread, and asks about his wife, Evelyn

A shift in mood occurs when Clarissa suddenly begins to mourn the life that she wished she had, and criticises her insignificance and physical appearance.

The tone becomes very negative and bitter when thinking of Miss Kilman, out of jealousy that she may be a better mother to her daughter than clarissa

The backfiring of the car triggers Septimus’ PTSD

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- Mrs Dalloway walks around London and the sounds she hears (Big Ben striking, a motor car backfiring -which she confuses with a pistol-) reminds her of the days of war. This is shown by the use of a negative and war-related semantic field.

- She thinks about why she rejected Peter, this being a prolepsis of this theme as later on in the novel she will tell their history together in- depth.

- She goes to buy the flowers while thinking about Peter, Elizabeth, her younger self...

- In page 13, focalisation shifts from Mrs. Dalloway to Septimus and Lucrezia Warren Smith.

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She sees Peter and starts thinking about the past, thinks of her relationship with her daughter, her social status, and then the car backfires and the focus shifts to Septimus

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Mrs. Dalloway: During the LSH review the first 12 pages of the novel in which Mrs Dalloway goes out to buy flowers. What happens on her walk? What does she see, whom does she meet and what does she think about? Trace the narrative with your group and mark the shift that occurs with backfiring of the motor car.  Make a bullet point or itemised list of what you think happens up until the 'The violent explosion which made Mrs Dalloway jump' (pg. 17 in the Oxford).

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LSH on Tuesday Nov. 26th

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social classes

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Purity in an impure world

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Historical context, the portrayal of relationships between characters, criminality and poverty

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Contrast between good and evil (lack of transformation in character)

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Social classes, struggle about life and miserable condition of life

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Morality vs. the corrupting effects of criminality

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What themes or topics do we need to discuss in Oliver Twist? What would you like to follow up on in next week's LSH and Seminar?

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It is interesting how Emma takes a dominant role in the domestic world over her male superiors despite her position in society as a woman - Rebecca, Ruby and Marina

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we learnt how colonial exploitation enables austen to explore the political control (sea which emma has never visited) and france churchill. we also believe austen is projecting her views of deviating from the stereotyped woman that societyexpects of this period.. emma not marrying straight away and acting as the ‘match maker’

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‘Emma’ initially reveals the suffocating limits of the domestic sphere, yet it could be argued that she also succumbs to the domesticity imposed upon 19th century women by getting married at the end of the novel. - Anna & Alice

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Emma acts as a proxy-Austen, as the attempted executor of multiple 'marriage plots' - the genre convention of the time.

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For a time where a lot of popular novels included plots about travelling to distant places with far-out adventures, it's surprising that the marriage plots and domestic plot is what took off in Jane Austen's time

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For an essentially plotless novel, there's a lot that goes on to fuel the development of each character in the book. -Kat

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Emma is often not considered to be a feminist figure but she is one of the few characters of Jane Austen that does not submit to the male characters around her.

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However, even Emma's role as the "matchmaker" is in itself conforming to the expectations of society: while she believes she will never get married, she forces this same fate onto Harriet, Isabella etc.

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Please post one thing you a) learned from lecture this week or b) found interesting, problematic or noteworthy about the novel

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LSH EMMA Chat (question and response)