The Dynamic Nature of the Individual Experience Sarah Abboud 12th Grade

A comparative study of prescribed texts generates insightful conversations between and within texts. How does the textual conversation between Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Daldry’s The Hours capture the dynamic nature of the individual experience? Textual conversations explore dialogic relationships and the fluctuating essence of the individual experience. The modernist novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Stephan Daldry’s 2002 postmodernist film, The Hours, present a united perspective on the changing contextual shifts which challenge social strictures and encapsulates the text’s purpose as well as revealing their perspectives around agency, memory and mortality. Mrs Dalloway captures the vicissitudes of life inherent in a single day while The Hours pays homage to Woolf's experimental style of shifting perspectives through its triptych portrait of three different lives. The intertextual connections within texts reveal the idea that the individual experience permeates contexts and values clearly evident in Mrs Dalloway and reframed in The Hours.

In traditional conservative society underpinned by patriarchal values, individual women will often seek a greater sense of power and agency. Mrs Dalloway was written post WW1 during a...