![]() What might this fact indicate about the nature of society and the restrictions it imposes? Does the author imply that character, to a certain extent, is destiny? Yet she has ended up, in spite of her unusual way of life, as a fairly conventional wife and mother. Clarissa Vaughan, on the other hand, apparently enjoys every liberty: freedom to be a lesbian, to come and go and live as she likes. Virginia and Laura are both, in a sense, prisoners of their eras and societies, and both long for freedom from this imprisonment.Dalloway? Does insanity (or the received idea of insanity) appear to be connected with creative gifts? ![]() What does the novel imply about the nature of insanity? Might it in fact be a heightened sanity, or at least a heightened sense of awareness? Would you classify Richard as insane? How does his mental state compare with that of Virginia? Of Laura as a young wife? Of Septimus Smith in Mrs.
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