Part 7

Part 7

Septimus
1. "he could be happy when he chose"
2. "saw faces laughing at him, calling him horrible disgusting names, from the walls"
  1. The Yellow Wallpaper
    Annotations:
    - Faces in the wallpaper
3. "first, that trees are alive; next, there is no crime; next, love, universal love"
  1. Leonard Woolf
    Annotations:
    - "What tends to break one down, to reduce on to gibbering despair when one is dealing with mental illness, is the terrible sanity of the insane"
4. "for one must be scientific, above all scientific"
5. "his body was macerated until only the nerve fibres were left"
6. Quick moving through ideas
  Annotations:
  - Woolf moves through Septimus' ideas very quickly, so that the reader feels as if they are being hurtled through this experience of insanity. Shows how he is thinking
7. "like a drowned sailor ona rock. I leant over the edge of the boat and fell down, he thought. I went under the sea. I have been dead, and yet am now alive"
8. "two dogs playing on a hearth-rug... they had to be together, share with each other"
  1. Evans "undemonstrative in the company of women"
9. "congratulated himself upon feeling very little and very reasonably... he could not feel"
10. "he gave in"
11. "the sin for which human nature had condemned him to death... the verdict on such a wretch"
12. "Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know. Holmes had won of course; the brute with the red nostrils had won"
Rezia
1. "But for herself she had done nothing wrong. she had loved Septimus; she had been happy... Why should she suffer?"
Dr Holmes
1. "Dr Holmes said there was nothing the matter with him"
  1. Virginia's experience
    Annotations:
    - "Doctors "know absolutely nothing"
2. Hermione Lee
  Annotations:
  - "competition of languages is one of the plots of Mrs Dalloway" "This is a life of heroism, not of oppression" "Leonard made Virginia's illness one of his life works"
3. Elaine Showalter
  Annotations:
  - "Septimus feels so much because others feel so little" "His grief and introspection are emotions that consigned to the feminine" "as soldiers returned to take over their former places as social leaders, women returned to their former places as primary psychiatric patients"
4. "human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs."
5. "health is largely a matter in our own control"
6. "Human nature, in short, was on him - the repulsive brute, with the blood-red nostrils"
The War
1. "change a face in two years from a pink innocent oval to a face lean, contracted, hostile"
2. "Every one has friends who were killed in the War. Every one gives up something when they marry."
3. "The millions lamented; for ages they had sorrowed"
4. "when something happened which threw out many of Mr Brewer's calculations... so prying and insidious were the fingers of the European War"
5. "He went to France to save an England which consisted almost entirely of Shakespeare's plays and Miss Isabel Pole"
Britishness
1. Hugh
  1. "the most sublime respect for the British aristocracy of any human being"
  2. "represented all that was most detestable in British middle-class life"
  3. "No country but England could have produced him"
  4. "snob"
  5. "obsequious"
  6. "a little job at court"
2. Richard
  1. "a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort"
  2. "He ought to have been a country gentleman"
  3. "no decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes"
3. "the English are so silent"
4. "The English are so serious"
Changing London
1. "People looked different. Newspapers seemed different"
2. "Never had he seen London look so enchanting... the richness; the greenness, the civilization"
Sally
1. "the last person in the world one would have expected to marry a rich man and live in a large house near Manchester, the wild, the daring, the romantic Sally""
Peter
1. "No, no, no! He was not in love with her any more!"
Clarissa
1. "she was straight as a dart, a little rigid in fact"
2. "With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes - one of the tragedies of married life. With a mind of her own, she must always be quoting Richard"
3. "doing good for the sake of goodness"
"Still, one got over things"
"Beauty was everywhere"
"it was extraordinary how vividly it all came back to him, things he hadn't thought of for years"
"that woman's gift, of making a world of her own wherever she happened to be"
"Life itself, every moment of it, every drop of it, here, this instant, now, in the sun, in Regent's Park, was enough. Too mcuh, indeed. A whole lifetime was too short to bring out... the full flavour"
"Voice of an ancient spring spouting from the earth"
"the world itself is without meaning"
"The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair"
"Love between man and woman was repulsive to Shakespeare. The business of copulation was filth to him before the end."

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