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For instance, Clarissa’s hubby is unable of saying how much he loves her but instead uses flowers to portray how much his love is. Parties struggled to get people together but instead became a group of alienated individuals. This alienation felt by almost every character in Mrs. Dalloway has a big feeling that the whole world may be against him or her (Woolf 15). “Septimus Warren Smith aged about thirty, pale-faced, beak-nosed, wearing brown shoes, and a shabby overcoat, with hazel eyes which had that look of apprehension in them which makes complete strangers apprehensive too.
The world has raised its whip; where will it descend.” Septimus shows his face through the face which makes others have fear and think that the world is against him (Shmoop Editorial Team). In Mrs. Dalloway, science of mind is visible where Peter Walsh calls on Clarissa Dalloway unexpectedly on the morning hours and finds her giving a party and trembling while kissing her hands. This portrays the fact that his old love had come back after many years and the only way to communicate back is by the actions of the body, as he cannot talk to express himself.
Peter’s body language shows his happiness and embarrassment at the same time and indicates that he had come back to the old times when he and Clarissa used to communicate without words (Rosenbaum 29). This is simply because, when Clarissa sees Peter trembling, she becomes so happy and shy. Peter here portrayed his emotions by using body language and the logic in it is upto the reader to figure out that and know the cause of his trembling. Consider another case when Richard Dalloway and Hugh Whitbread went to Lady Bruton to do a letter for the times.
“And Miss Brush went out, came back…” (Woolf 86). In this passage, we have to deduce Bruton’s ideas put on paper by Hugh and from the pen that he was using plus the beauty of the capital letters and rings on the margins. From this, we can deduce that,
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