电影介绍-the-hours-(时时刻刻).ppt

THE HOURS Analysis of Major Characters Virginia Woolf Laura Brown Clarissa Vaughn Leonard Woolf Dan Richard Virginia Woolf Laura Brown Clarissa Vaughn Dan Richard Leonard Woolf * * 113班  The character Virginia Woolf is closely based on the biography of the actual Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf is best known for perfecting a stream-of-consciousness style, which imitates on the page the free, impressionistic flow of human thought. Virginia Woolf’s struggle with mental illness led her to commit suicide, which Cunningham depicts in the novel’s prologue. Virginia struggles with her mental health and is very conscious of this struggle. She fights to keep the “shadow in the mirror,” the pounding headaches, and the voices in her head at bay. Virginia focuses on her writing as a way of channeling her energy and emotion productively. At the same time, Virginia sees her writing as something that happens to her rather than as something she has fully under her control. She is incredibly sensitive to the world around her and unusually receptive to small details of her environment, which she believes have incredible significance. Her sensitivity makes her a great writer, but she also is subject to incredibly strong emotions that are set off by events that other people might not even notice. Though she wants to be healthy, she perceives the world in such a profound way that the feelings of madness haunt her. Laura Brown, like many women of her generation, married young and has settled into the roles of wife and mother at a relatively young age. Although her husband -Dan is kind, her son loves her, and they live in a nice home. Laura is unhappy, because she feels as though she has woken up in someone else’s life. Laura seeks comfort in books, specifically Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Through reading, she can step out of her life and critically examine her own experiences. The subject matter of suicide also forces her to consider the idea that she wants to fi