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This 20 page essay draws on critical analysis to offer a thorough discussion of how Virginia Woolf conceptualized community within her last novel, Between the Acts. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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poised on the brink of extinction. Herbert Marder, commenting on her writing at this time, indicates that while Woolf was obsessed with vision of the approaching chaos that World War
II entailed, she was also obsessed with writing her new novel, Between the Acts. While her diary at this time indicates a dark and foreboding turning of mind, paradoxically, Woolf
also indicates that the impending doom added a degree of "gaiety and recklessness to the random daily life" routine (Marder 466). As this suggests, Between the Acts is a
highly unusual novel that presents a multifaceted view of English village life. This examination of Woolfs text focuses on one thematic aspect of this complex work, which is the role
of community and how Woolf perceives this concept. This analysis reveals that Woolfs prose demonstrates the tension that she perceived between individuality and separateness and the idea that society
can be viewed as a unified whole, showing that, in this work, Woolf thoroughly examines this dichotomy, pointing to the lessons that she believed could be derived from this complex
human condition. Woolfs use of language and the structure in Between the Acts This theme is particularly evident in the way in which Woolf structures the novel. Rather than
chapters, Woolf presents scenes of varying lengths, which are separated by a blank space, with each scene offering a fragmentary view of the characters and the action, rather than following
the structure of the traditional chronological narrative. It is also interesting to note that this structure can be viewed as a metaphor for her overall conceptualization, as it causes the
reader to speculate about what occurs within the blank space, that is, "between the acts" or scenes that are given in the novels text. For example, early in the novel,
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