Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway

?Introduction & Thesis story\nIn one afternoon tea scene in Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, 17-year-old Elizabeth leaves her tutor, Doris Kilman, in dismay, desire a dumb creature galloped in terror (Woolf 146). forward from the stifling conversation with Kilman, Elizabeth muses upon her future. She would non grow up to be handle Kilman, nor would she wish to head up a life like her mothers. Elizabeth thinks about universe a doctor or a farmer in short, she would like to have a profession. She would become a doctor, a farmer, possibly go into fantan if she found it necessary... (Woolf 150-151). Whether Elizabeth becomes a doctor, a farmer, or a fantan member is receivedly leftover unanswered, given that the novel captures comely one day in Mrs. Dalloways life. Yet, why does Elizabeth set about it difficult to identify with the cardinal elder women so culture to her? Why does Woolf arrange for Elizabeth to phone number away from Kilman and to wander just in the streets of London? How, after the short wandering, is Elizabeth able to ingathering to her mother calmly and ably (Woolf 153)? One thing is for certain Elizabeth exhibits awareness that she has more choices regarding her sustain lifes running than her mothers generation, and in this brief scene, Woolf seems to fling at later generations the question whether daughters evict transcend the rigid dichotomy of women devised by patriarchy docile, obedient wife like Mrs. Dalloway/outlandish, unamiable private woman like Kilman? If women submit not be pin down in any random variable of dichotomy which undermines their multiplicity, how do we destitute ourselves from the entrapment? finished imagination? Through creativity? Or finished artistic creation?\nIn an attempt to answer the above questions, I would like to reiterate a line from Margaret Atwoods poem Spelling: A word after a word after a word is power, which indicates the relevancy between womens theme and acquisition of . ..