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    plan” (Haddon 181). The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time is in the point of view of a teenage boy who suffers from a disorder named Christopher. The story through Christopher’s eyes is not a typical point of view. Haddon makes use of stream of consciousness when Christopher’s storytelling strays from his original point into a point that he believes is of equal importance. The first person perspective is a tool to demonstrate the order and planning that goes on in Christopher’s mind. The style

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    Virginia Woolf recognized the great importance of psychology and was keen to portraying the stream of consciousness within her characters. Being psychologically ill herself, the findings of Freud solidified Woolf’s preexisting beliefs that her sickness was not one for the medical world (Wikie & Hurt 1688). in 1917 the collection of short stories were published we read an introspective stream of consciousness with irony, A Mark on the Wall is no

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    characters' consciousness and physical development, producing an innovative type of narrative which depicts realities beneath appearances, and at the same time brings about a deep exploration of the human mind. To the Lighthouse was written in 1927 and it is considered a masterpiece due to the way in which Woolf experimented with the stream of consciousness as well as with the emotional feelings of her characters. The composition has relatively

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    unconventional techniques in their poems to emphasise certain points or ideas that they believe are vital to understanding the message of the poem. You Big Ugly written by Ania Walwicz is a poem that uses unconventional techniques such as dialect and stream of consciousness in order to convey a message of hate and disgust towards the people and places of Australia. Walwicz is an immigrant from Poland who is famous for many of her other poems such as Red Roses (1992) and Elegant (2013). Her poem You Big Ugly is

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    The modernist movement in Literature came about in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as authors began to consciously break from traditional writing styles and experiment with new methods of storytelling. These authors drew their inspiration from the real world and their own experiences. Every aspect of the world has its own influence from historical events to developments in psychological theory. The authors of the modernist era, such as William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Elliot

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    these negative moments since she realizes she is forty years old and needs to begin thinking of herself appropriately. This excellently portrays the Modernist mindset of writers within the realm of European fiction by emphasizing inner emotions, consciousness, and alienation. The symbol of the dress represents how this object causes the protagonist to experience complex inner emotions, experience continuous conscious thoughts of inferiority and the alienation of not being good enough. Critical sources

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    Personal Identity What explains the unity of consciousness is the fact that experiences are casually interconnected. My reading of the unity of consciousness states that the series of mental happenings and events are interconnected together simply by causal relation. The Unity of Life is the linked experiences of a person joint with their personality and ego. Also the Unity of life states that experiences are connected over time. Between two theories, I believe that the Bundle theory works well

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    era. The story is read like a townsperson is telling the story of Emily. It is like listening to his/her thoughts. William Faulkner uses examples of modernism with stream of consciousness, refusal of life style changes, and a broken society. William Faulkner uses examples of modernism with stream of consciousness. Stream of consciousness abandons chronology, attempts to imitate memory, and is a literary result an interest in psyche. In the story, “A Rose For Emily”, the city authorities comes to Emily’s

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    I chose to write a stream of consciousness from the point of view of Caylin-Calandria. I have done so because Caylin-Calandria has experienced death before has her mother die when she was young. As she has dealt with death before this gave me an idea to include a small side of multiply personality disorder as this is a common occurrence when people are dealing with significant trauma. As Caylin-Calandria struggles to understand her mother’s dead, I added a small side of multiply personality disorder

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    In his novel The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger uses Holden’s red hunting hat and stream of consciousness to characterize the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, as a misanthrope, nearing a mental breakdown because he is trapped between societal expectations and his disdain for that society. Since Holden refuses to compromise any of his ideals, society pushes him out and perceives him as odd, an outcast. His red hunting hat is a symbol of his estrangement. It makes him feel like one of a kind, and

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