Analysis of Clarissa’s Personality in Mrs. Dalloway from the Perspective of Psychoanalysis

Yongmiao Wu

doi:10.54097/0njzgc15

Authors

Yongmiao Wu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/0njzgc15

Keywords:

Mrs. Dalloway; Virginia Woolf; psychological analysis; literary criticism.

Abstract

Mrs. Dalloway is a stream-of-consciousness experimental novel by the famous British female writer Virginia Woolf. The story is based on the day when the heroine Clarissa decides to buy the flowers herself for a dinner party and encounters her old lover. It uses a large number of psychological monologues to showcase the struggles of the post-war life of the characters in the novel. The psychoanalytic theory was proposed by Freud. This article briefly analyzes the personality of Clarissa Dalloway based on the triple personality theory of Id, ego and super-ego, and reveals her repression and tragic life as a woman.

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