The Use of Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Abstract

During to 19th century, the realist deals with the social, political, and economical problems. Also, this time was characterized by the World War as a main theme by so many writers whom dealt with those realistsl style of writings .In the twentieth century, stream of consciousness as a most important style of writing that deals with the flow of ideas, feelings, thoughts, and sensation of the characters at a specific moment without any logical, punctuation, and reality. This narrative technique was advanced by many novelists such as: James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were one of them. She was well known by this new fictional style of writing within all her works especially in “Mrs. Dalloway”. This literary work is about the preparation of a special party by Clarissa Dalloway to all her friends as a description of one-night in June 1923, it is known by the analysis of character’s thoughts, feelings, and emotion. Woolf tried to move deeply into the portrayal of her characters in her novel. So, the aim of this study is to show Virginia Woolf’s consciousness through the character’s mind.