Comparing Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway and Emily Brontes Wuthering H

Comparing Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway and Emily Brontes Wuthering HeightsVirginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway and Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights share similarities in many aspects, perhaps most plainly seen in the plots just as Clarissa marries Richard rather than Peter Walsh in instal to secure a pleasant life for herself, Catherine chooses Edgar Linton over Heathcliff in an attempt to wrest both herself and Heathcliff from the un good lifestyle of Wuthering Heights. However, these dickens unexampleds also overlap in thematic elements in that both are concerned with the opposing forces of civilization or order and chaos or madness. The recurring image of the ho aim is an important symbolization used to illustrate both authors order versus chaos substructures. Though Woolf and Bronte use the house as a symbol in very disparate ways, the existing similarities create striking resonances between the 2 novels at accredited critical scenes. In Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Dalloway undergoes an internal struggle between her love for orderliness and life and a combined affinity for and fear of death. Her practical union to Richard serves its purpose of providing her with an involved social life of gatherings and parties that others may find giddy but Clarissa sees as an offering to the life she loves so well. Throughout the novel she grapples with the prospect of growing old and approaching death, which after the joys of her life seems astounding that it must end and no one in the whole reality would know how she had loved it all how, every instant At the same time, she is drawn to the very idea of dying, a theme which is most patently exposed through her reaction to the news of Septimus Smiths suicide. However, this polar scene r... ...ng the juxtaposition of order and chaos. The roles that the houses of both stories play in this theme bring to light interesting similarities between the characters and thematic elements as well as revealing differenc es. Both Woolf and Bronte use the open window as a symbol for the opportunity to see beyond the physical, the ordered, into something less manageable by civilization. However, Catherine seems to be trapped in an unnatural and dangerous unit of ammunition of passion and madness that only dissipates after Heathcliffs death, whereas Clarissa continues with life in society despite her attraction to death and to Septimus. The resonances between the window scenes of these two novels, though simultaneously similar and disparate, shed light on the record of Clarissas and Catherines characters as well as on the two authors use of the civilization versus wildness theme.