+1 862 207 3288 Mrs. Dalloway
1. “…Proportion has a sister, less smiling, more formidable. . . .Conversion is her name and she feasts on the wills of the weakly, loving to impress, to impose, adoring her own features stamped on the face of the populace. At Hyde Park corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitently disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own.” (100)
Sir William Bradshaw and Miss Doris Killman are characters associated with conversion. Who and what are they trying to convert? How are Clarissa and Septimus affected by them?
2. Woolf writes, “People were beginning to compare her to poplar trees, early dawn, hyacinths, fawns, running water, and garden lilies, and it made her life a burden to her, for she so much preferred being left alone…” Explain this quote as it relates to Elizabeth. Then discuss the flowers and trees and natural world metaphors in the novel and what they reveal about several of the characters. (134).
