SESSION 1:
CHECKING OUT
We are about to finish Unit 10, but before calling it a day we will take a final view at the grammar and vocabulary of the unit.
Go to pages 119 and 120 and do the exercises.
SESSION 2:
MRS DALLOWAY. PAGES 35-40
1. Have a look at the timeline below and try to locate what you've read in time:
Timeline of Events
SECTION 2: ABOUT THE EXPLOSION
2. Watch this video explaining section 2 in Mrs Dalloway:
3. Answer the following questions on section 2:
What does the "dove gray" car, with its mysterious occupant, represent?
We see Septimus in the middle of a crowd, what effect does this have in the reader?
How are class distinctions made more evident in the scene of the royal car?
How does the event of the plane writing letters in the sky join everybody in the streets of London?
SESSION 3:
MRS DALLOWAY. PAGES 46-51
World War I and Its Impact
World War I lasted from 1914 to 1918. Britain emerged no longer a world superpower, with the United States and the Soviet Union surpassing Britain in authority. The war was longer and bloodier than anyone expected. Britain's veterans, those who survived, had faced horrific conditions in muddy, rat-infested trenches. War machines became more sophisticated, and jet aircraft flew overhead. The British weren't sure what would happen next, but they knew nothing would ever be the same again.
Mrs. Dalloway deals directly with the plight of veterans through Septimus Warren Smith and explores how the anxiety and alienation caused by the war affects characters from all types. The novel explores shell shock (now post-traumatic stress disorder), an illness often observed in war veterans, and its devastating effects. The characters' confused responses to Septimus's symptoms, and to his suicide, show the government's, and the average citizen's, struggle and failure to meet their needs.
Seale Hayne Military Hospital in Devon took in after World War I soldiers suffering from shell shock and helped them recover through various methods. Their symptoms included staggering, shuffling, twitching, dancing, and shaking. After treatment the men’s symptoms seemed to alleviate.
Watch this video to learn more about the disease that Septimus suffered after war:
Now see how the effects of shell shock (PTSD) are present in Mrs Dalloway and describe the different scenes in your notebook:
SESSION 4:
MRS DALLOWAY. PAGES 52-56
Women's Shifting Roles
Woolf and her sister, Vanessa, were not happy just serving tea to male guests. They participated fully in intellectual discussions with the Bloomsbury Group.Their sharing their house with several men and women and Woolf's intimate female relationships implied a break from the conservative Victorian era.
However, Woolf was still frustrated by the limited roles available for women. She couldn't go to college and women were still unequal to men in marriage. She was frustrated by the fact that women were confined to the domestic sphere, and male intellectual regarded them as trivial. In Mrs. Dalloway we can see several women who are given more depth and a broader context. However, Clarissa's calm but less than passionate marriage to Richard Dalloway reflects the contrary.
1. Read this excerpt and summarize the main ideas:
2. Watch this video on the shifting roles of women after WWI and answer this question: How did things change for women?
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