Stream Of Consciousness In Virginia Wolff's The Mark On The Wall

It was once said, “The art of the storyteller is to hold the attention of the readers.” If a novelist is able to grab the attention of the readers, they can easily convey ideas and themes represented in the story successfully to its’ readers. For instance, Zora Neale Hurston is considered to be a brilliant writer, who has the ability to form a storytelling chain within her novels and to “render a world complete with its codes and disciplines within a few sentences” (Danticat). This is shown in her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston uses various literary elements such as foreshadowing, point of view, imagery, and metaphor in order to capture the attention of the readers.

The writer composes the story from the perspective of an analyst. She alludes to occasions later on, facts, and information that no character could have known in the setting of the story. Incorporated into the content are genuine quotes said or composed by the general population she expounds on, including the primary character. She utilizes an extremely objective voice, giving successive analysis of distinctive individuals' outlook and continually alluding to insights to demonstrate her point. Since the book does not focus on the point of view of any single character, it peruses more like a news article than a story, which frequently exhausting its groups of readers. Accordingly, Hillenbrand's written work style once in a while obstructs the correspondence of her thoughts because she regularly includes actualities, quotes and investigation in the book; it usually bores audience on the grounds that it peruses more like a news article instead of a

The mark of a skilled writer is shown in their individuality, crafting a narrative voice that becomes recognizable and, therefore, respected. The narrative voice of the story encompasses the author’s writing style, what techniques they use, and how their presentation of the story overall strengthens the story. When writing, nearly each element—from the characters to the setting’s influence—needs some level of consideration on how it will play into the story. If there is a lack of nuance in the writing, or if major aspects of the story are not fully established, it will fail to communicate the author’s themes to the audience in an effective way. In classic poetry and literature, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most iconic writers. His works are known for their melancholy and macabre narratives, often grotesque imagery, and how each explores thought-provoking themes in intense ways; all of which are attributed to Poe’s gothic narrative voice. For example, one of his most noteworthy short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” chronicles the efforts of an undisclosed narrator reflecting on his time

The author tries to convey this message mainly through writing this piece in first person while using the literary style of stream of consciousness. Periodically throughout the piece, the author shows his

The movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, uses the stream of consciousness technique very well. The premise of the movie is essentially built on this writing technique. At the beginning of the movie, Walter experiences daydreams very frequently, while his actual life is very average and boring. The viewer even gains a sense of pity for Walter because he dreams of doing so many amazing things, but lacks the courage and boldness to realize these fantasies.

Rikki took to a sprint to make it to the other side, leaving Gear just footsteps behind her. The guards stopped her, took her to the ground, Gear just seconds behind ready to help her. Rikki started screaming for her old sniper friend Karolina. It was too late, separated by a demon wall. Stuck with no one, but Gear.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birth-mark” he writes about a woman named Georgiana who has a single flaw, a birthmark on her cheek. Although she thinks little of it, her husband obsesses over it. The birthmark eventually becomes a source of turmoil in their marriage. Georgiana is a complex character, who grows and develops throughout the narrative. Georgiana has a moment of clarity before her death that displays how wise she truly is. Throughout the story Hawthorne conveys many essential lessons for the reader to consider and utilize.

The digital clock that hung on the wall adjacent to her read that it was nearing six in the morning; she had gotten through the night without being paged back to work. A low groan escaped Lauren's barely parted lips and she rubbed her eyes, trying to clear them of their hazy vision. Her mind was a foggy mess of an open field with towering weeds that swayed back and forth to a violent wind while she stood, unable to transcend to the other side, isolated and wailing. She was drowning in that uncanny state of consciousness—not quite awake yet not quite asleep—and her thoughts were laxly rising from the depths of an infinite

The narrator imagines his wife is a different person with the scab on her face, Charlie imagines he is the narrator by dressing like him, and perhaps even the narrator’s wife imagines that Charlie is her husband. We can also see that the novel is formatted in a way in which we can see the narrator’s entire thought process, seeing as he starts off talking about himself, allowing us to think that it is a story about himself, however he then ends it with a story about a friend, having little to do with the rest of the narrative, besides a common thread of infidelity and replacement. The narrator also seems to value certain objects in his mind, fetishizing them to the point in which he almost seems to obsess over them. This is true for both his queen sized bed and the scab that forms on his wife’s face. This obsession overcomes the narrator and seems to inspire him both creatively and sexually. If the story had been written in a more traditional form, it would be quite difficult to understand the sense of obsession mixed with the uncertainty behind his fetishism that the postmodern writing highlights so well with its almost “stream of consciousness”

‘Narrated monologue’ is the English equivalent of French ‘style indirect libre’ and German ‘Erlebte Rede’. It is a writing style defined by its description of a character’s thoughts while still using third-person point of view. This allows Solzhenitsyn to reveal the protagonist’s thoughts without a break in the narration. ‘Narrated monologue’ is used to avoid a connection with ‘stream of consciousness’, yet it could instead become ‘direct interior monologue’.

Psychological criticism pulls from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories to better interpret the text we are reading by trying to understand both the author and the reader. These critics use this approach to understand the motive of the characters, emblematic meanings in literature and the state of mind of the author, and to analyze the reader’s response to the work. This is a great strategy to use when trying to understand Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” The story here focuses on a man who is obsessed with his wife’s birthmark. So obsessed in fact, he risks her life to remove it in hopes for her to reach absolute perfection. Using the psychological approach to this, we can clearly tell that the husband in this story, Alymer, is

The ideas of reading and writing seems intertwined; to do one of them one has to know how to do the other. Therefore, this makes both as powerful as the other in language and literature. Most authors who talk about the ideology of reading and writing, compose their works mainly based from outside sources and other author’s works. However, comic writer Alison Bechdel composes a story about the troubles and hardships she encounters while writing. This oddly more intricate story, offers a deeper look into Bechdel’s personal life in which she explains her own thoughts as an omnipotent narrator. As the narrator of her own story – showing the character’s actual thoughts apart from dialogue – Bechdel introduces her main theory: the creation of

The Development of the ‘Stream-of-Consciousness’ Technique in Modernist English Fiction (with Special Reference to the Contributions of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf)

The first person narrative is not only sending the actual feeling, emotional from the characters to the reader; therefore, it also illustrates the reality to the reader during the 19th century. The conflict between the protagonist and her husband portrays how her situation and many other women in marriage and society. As the narrator recognizes herself as the woman inside the wallpaper; however, she also realizes other women whom are being trapped outside, creeping around “I don 't like to LOOK out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast” (Gilman 25). The protagonist’s situation with her husband has an important impact within her minds and her understandings of her powerlessness in marriage; consequently, it can provide the reader an actual perspective from the narrator. Additionally, the first person point of view allows the reader to go along into insanity and encourages the reader to feel sympathy for the protagonist and other women during that time period. As the narrator losing her sanity over the pattern of the wallpaper, she becomes happier and more exciting than ever before. By Gilman’s literary devices, the narrator’s life becomes happier as she becomes insane and obsessed with the pattern of the wallpaper: “Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be” (Gilman 21). The unnamed narrator

Although it seems that there is no movement, no plot, no tragedy, no comedy, and no love interest, much less to mention the description of the exterior world except the object the mark on the wall, the narration is balanced in construction and well organized. However, the Mark on the Wall mainly focuses on the revelation of heroine’s spiritual activities that are quite opposite to the traditional way of novel writing. Probing into the origin and development of the stream of consciousness technique, I found it was actually based on three theories. First of all, William James coined the psychological term ‘consciousness’. According to James (1971), consciousness does not appear to itself chopped up in bit; it is nothing joined, it flows, like a ‘stream’, or a ‘stream of water’; let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Secondly, French philosopher Henry Bergson established the notion of duration, or lived time, as opposed to what he viewed as the spatialized conception of time, measured by a clock, so he suggested that “reality” exists in the inseparable stream of consciousness (Kumar 1963). Therefore, he encouraged writers to pursue the inner world and depict the characters from the angle of psychology. Thirdly, an Austrian physician and neurologist Sigmund Freud (1950) put