![]() ![]() ![]() “Nothing, it seemed, could survive the flood, the profusion of darkness which, creeping in at keyholes and crevices, stole round window blinds, came into bedrooms, swallowed up here a jug and basin, there a bowl of red and yellow dahlias, there the sharp edges and firm bulk of a chest of drawers” (Woolf 125-126). Woolf creates a confusing and dark atmosphere while portraying the detrimental effects of time on the Ramsay’s empty house. Instead, she addresses the issues of time and death through a third person narration and shows the pertinence of such topics to a developing artist. Woolf changes the structure of her novel in “Time Passes,” abandoning her main characters until the third section of the novel. As a consequence, she unites such fragmented, bracketed statements into a uniform understanding of modernity. In “Time Passes,” Woolf breaks from her traditional literary form to forge a new consciousness for society and introduces the typographical device of the square bracket to write from the point-of-view of an objective outsider. ![]() Woolf’s stylistic devices, especially those employed in the segment, “Time Passes,” reveal her thoughts on modernity and on pursuing life as an artist in the modern world. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows the development of the painter, Lily Briscoe, as she strives to create a meaningful space for her artwork in an increasingly critical and unkind world. ![]()
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