The Dilemma and Trauma of Women in Mrs Dalloway

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10.2991/icassee-19.2019.118How to use a DOI?

Keywords

trauma; dilemma; Mrs Dalloway; patriarchy; The Great War

Abstract

This essay intends to analyze Mrs Dalloway, the most important work of Virginia Woolf from the perspective of trauma theory. In the patriarchal society, women, who are disadvantaged groups subordinated to men, are rendered powerless and helpless. They witness and go through threatening or disastrous events. So, they often experience negative feelings, the accumulations of which traumatize them. Virginia Woolf creates several disadvantaged women characters in Mrs Dalloway. The essay will explore the trauma and dilemma faced by women in Mrs Dalloway and the gender oppression against women.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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