Std 12th English The New Dress
1.5 The New Dress
Virginia Woolf (1882 to 1941, London) was an
English novelist and essayist. She is considered a modernist writer of the 20th century
and pioneer of the ‘stream of consciousness’ as a narrative device. The
glimpses of early modern feminism can easily be traced in her writing. ‘The Voyage
Out’, ‘To the Lighthouse’, ‘Orlando’ and ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ are her remarkable
novels. ‘A Haunted House’ is her famous short story collection from which the
present story ‘The New Dress’ is adapted.
The present story is about a Mabel Waring, who
is constantly thinking about her new yellow dress in negative terms. She
herself has chosen the design, colour and pattern of the dress which she has
decided to wear for a party at Mrs Dalloway. However, at that party she keeps
thinking that the dress is old fashioned and everyone in the party is mocking
at her dress. She thinks that she is a fly at the edge of the saucer, drowning
deep and deep, as she comes seriously under the spell of her own negative mind
and in a depression leaves the party. To show Mabel’s suppressed desires,
unfulfilled ambitions and meagre financial conditions of her childhood,
Virginia Woolf has employed the stream of consciousness technique very
effectively.
"सारे शिकु या,पुढे जाउया" या उपक्रमांतर्गत
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