Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway

?Introduction & Thesis avouchment\nIn one afternoon tea scene in Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, 17-year-old Elizabeth leaves her tutor, Doris Kilman, in dismay, wish a dumb marionette galloped in terror (Woolf 146). onward from the stifling conversation with Kilman, Elizabeth muses upon her future. She would not grow up to be interchangeable Kilman, nor would she wish to twist a life like her mothers. Elizabeth thinks about be a doctor or a farmer in short, she would like to have a profession. She would become a doctor, a farmer, possibly go into sevens if she found it necessary... (Woolf 150-151). Whether Elizabeth becomes a doctor, a farmer, or a fantan member is plasteredly left over(p) unanswered, given that the novel captures fair one day in Mrs. Dalloways life. Yet, why does Elizabeth play it difficult to identify with the two elder women so fill up to her? Why does Woolf arrange for Elizabeth to unit of ammunition away from Kilman and to wander simply in the st reets of London? How, after the short wandering, is Elizabeth able to pop off to her mother calmly and ably (Woolf 153)? One thing is for certain Elizabeth exhibits awareness that she has more choices regarding her experience lifes parentage than her mothers generation, and in this brief scene, Woolf seems to fling at later generations the question whether daughters do-nothing transcend the rigid duality of women devised by patriarchy docile, duteous wife like Mrs. Dalloway/outlandish, unamiable wizard woman like Kilman? If women direct not be detain in any stamp of dichotomy which undermines their multiplicity, how do we destitute ourselves from the entrapment? by imagination? Through creativity? Or through artistic creation? \nIn an attempt to answer the to a higher place questions, I would like to abduce a line from Margaret Atwoods poem Spelling: A word after a word after a word is power, which indicates the relevancy between womens makeup and acquisition of .. .