https://padlet.com/victoriajjj/9kg9ixkt5viu By Virginia Woolf. en-us 2016-11-12 16:42:43 UTC 2023-04-03 11:23:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dootheets.png https://padlet.com/victoriajjj/9kg9ixkt5viu/wish/137152583 The mark on wall as an interior monologue      ]]> 2016-11-12 20:06:18 UTC https://padlet.com/victoriajjj/9kg9ixkt5viu/wish/137152583 https://padlet.com/victoriajjj/9kg9ixkt5viu/wish/137153051               She was born in 1882 in Kensington, London.  Her parents were Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Princep Duckworth. Her father was a notable historian, author, critic and mountaineer. He was also a founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, a work that would influence Virginias's later experimental biographies.
Virginia was educated by her parents in their literate and well-connected household. She and her sister were raised in a enviroment filled with the influences of Victorian literary society such as William Tackeray, Henry James and George Henry Lewis. She learned classic and English literature.
              The sudden death of her mother in 1895 led to the first of Virginia's several nervous breakdowns.
In her middle twenties she got in contact with  some of the earlier reformers of women's higher education because she took courses of ancient Greek, Latin, German at the Ladies Department of King's Colleage London.
The death of her father in 1904 provoked the most alarming collapse and she was institutionalized, but modern scholars have suggested her breakdowns and depressive periods were also influenced by the sexual abuse to which she was subjected by her half brothers. Virginia wrote about this abuse in her autobiographical essay A Sketch of the Past.
              Throughout her life, she was plagued by periodic mood swings and associated illnesses. She was institutionalized three times between 1910 and 1913. Though this instability often affected her social life, her literary productivity continued throughout her life.
                The Bloomsbury Group was a circle of writers and artists that Virginia was member of. Their works and outlooks deeply influenced literature, aesthetik, criticism and economics as well as moderm attitudes towards feminism, pacifism and sexuality.
Virginia married the writer Leonard Woolf in 1912. Despite his low material ??? status, the couple shared a close bond. The two founded the Hogart Press in 1917, which published most of Virginia´s novels.
During her marriage, she had a sexual relationship with Vita Sackville-West between 1922 and 1930. Virginia wrote about this in Orlando, a fantastical biography in which the eponymous her´s life spans 3 centuies and both sexies. ????????
                 After her last novel she fell into depression. The onset of World War II, the destruction of her London home during the Blitz worsened her condition until she was unable to work. In 1941 she left a suicide letter and drowned herself by filling her overcoat pockets with stones and walking into the river Ouse near her home.]]> 2016-11-12 20:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/victoriajjj/9kg9ixkt5viu/wish/137153051 https://padlet.com/victoriajjj/9kg9ixkt5viu/wish/137153616          The themes of the story are feminism, nature and life.
         Feminism is one of the main themes because as she was a feminist, she clearly stands her position and depicts her thoughts. She criticizes men and marks the different ways she considers men and women to think. This is shown at the end when she is suddenly interrupted by her husband, who makes her come back to reality. She also mentions Whitaker's Almanack, which contained the Table of Precedencies in which women were not present and allowed.
         Nature is also an important theme since many metaphors and analogies are related to natural elements such as trees, water, fish, a snail, etc.
         Life is another main theme in view of the fact that the whole story is a chant to life itself. During the story, she ???? reflects about life and issues closely related to it, for instance, war, social classes, human behaviour, the world, etc. Woolf also marks the difference between man-made things and natural things.]]> 2016-11-12 20:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/victoriajjj/9kg9ixkt5viu/wish/137153616 https://padlet.com/victoriajjj/9kg9ixkt5viu/wish/137154686            The main device of the story is stream of consciousness, also known as interior monologue, which is a narrative mode or device that depicts the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind. The term was coined by William James in 1890 in his The Principles of Psychology, and in 1918 May Sinclair first applied the term in a literary context, when discussing Dorothy Richardson's novels.
           There are three ways to write using this literary device. By means of:
1) Participles
2) Repetition
3) Long sentences
           In the story the writer goes from one idea to another, but always considering the motif (the mark on the wall) which helps her to continue thinking and developing ideas.
           Irony is another device present in the story. It consists of an event in which what appears on the surface to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case. The whole story can be considered an instance of irony.
           The short story is also full of metaphors, which are closely related to some symbols and to one of the main themes: life. "The Mark on the Wall" is a metaphor of Woolf's life and way of thinkng. It could be a glimpse of what happened in her mind. As she was insane and suffered bipolar disorder, her thoughts were arranged in a different way. 
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