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This 5 page paper discusses the way Virginia Woolf and Oscar Wilde use time in their novels “Mrs. Dalloway” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” respectively. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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by the flow of time. But time can be manipulated in order to give show us differing perspectives on events and people. Time can also be a positive thing, or
a negative: we wait eagerly for a happy event, even as time sweeps us along to our inevitable end. This paper considers the way two authors, Virginia Woolf and Oscar
Wilde, deal with the anxieties of time in their novels Mrs. Dalloway and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Discussion The first thing that we can say about the novels has
to do with their structure rather than their content. The two treat time in very different ways. Mrs. Dalloway takes place over the course of one day, whereas The Picture
of Dorian Gray encompasses an entire lifetime. Perhaps because of the time spans thus covered, Mrs. Dalloway has a "hurried" feel to it while Dorian Gray moves at a more
leisurely pace. Within the novels, however, both authors "play" with time. Woolf uses flashbacks and memories to explore her characters feelings, and Wilde covers years of Grays life so that
readers can watch his development, and his eventual horrific end. Maureen Howard is apparently one of those for whom Virginia Woolf can do no wrong, which makes her introduction
to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf follows the "classical unities of time and place," which "mark off events as the hours and
half-hours are struck off on London clocks" (Howard vii). The idea of "classical unities" come down to us from the Greek theater; from Aristotles Poetics in fact, in which he
says, basically, that the action of a play has to take place in one location (place), in a period of 24 hours (time) and follow one action through from its
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