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the waves
Title: the waves
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1037 | Pages: 4.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
the waves
In this essay, an analysis of process types will show how Rhoda, a character from Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves, experiences herself and the world. It will be demonstrated that Rhoda is a kind of ‘displaced person in the universe’, unable to act upon this world but longing for a transcendental, immutable dream world. In her interior monologue, Rhoda builds up a strong contrast between the room in which the party takes place (associated …showed first 75 words of 1037 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1037 total…discontinuities and fragmentations in human experience into a lasting, aesthetic shape. This ‘artistic’ interpretation is further enhanced by Rhoda’s extensive use of metonymy (tongues, terrors) and metaphor (arrows, tiger), including grammatical metaphor (e.g. ‘Throwing faint smiles’, ‘Scorn and ridicule pierce me’: you cannot throw smiles, and scorn and ridicule cannot pierce). We may conclude that the process types have proven to be adequate means to give ‘body’ or ‘word’ to both ‘worlds’ described.
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