Brandon Lee 20th Century

  I wanted take this opportunity to expand more on my thoughts about the relations between Septimus and Clarissa Dalloway  and how the reflect each other's characters in this book. This might be a slightly more sad and serioud blog, so bear with me please. On one hand, Septimus's trauma is visible through his emotional outbreaks and hallucinations. His trauma is easier to comprehend because of how clear it is that he has PTSD. On the other hand, Clarissa struggels on the inside with her stressful thoughts and insecurities about how she is portrayed by others. Both have different characteristics of struggle that are equally as important, but yet society refuses to acknowledge these two examples and focus on the surface of these character or the tip of the iceberg.  These two people could not be any more different from each other when looking at it from an outsider perspective. Clarissa is a middle-high class hostess married to Richard Dalloway. She seems to have a refined ...