Gürbüz, Benan (2012) To what extent, the descriptions in the beginning of each chapter of the novel ‘The Waves’ by Virginia WOOLF, and the lives of the characters, Bernard, Neville, Louis, Susan, Jinny and Rhoda connect to the vicious circle of life and nature. Other thesis, TED Ankara College Foundation High School.
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Abstract
Before I read the biography of Virginia Woolf, written by Quentin Bell1, I was not familiar with her yet I found her life very impressive. She feels every emotion with all of her heart. She suffered from great depressions which helped her acquire enormous impressions as a result of her intellectuality and extraordinary talent. I felt it an obligation to analyze and evaluate one of her novels. When I started reading the first chapter of ‘The Waves’ in the bookstore, before I decided to buy it, my very first impression was positive. I found the way she uses metaphors and vocabulary fascinating. The novel is only 248 pages yet the content is much more than that as it reflects human nature and the vicious circle of life by demonstrating the motions of the sun and waves in a day from sunrise to sunset. Whereas the sun is used to state the time, in which the characters of the novel lived, the waves lapping, overlapping and hitting on the shore are used to denote that the reflection of human life can be found in nature. Another issue related to the novel is the indispensable bond between men and nature as human beings are a part of nature although they have the tendency of isolating themselves from it. In this essay I tried to evaluate the connections between the vicious circle of life and nature by relating the lives of the characters, Bernard, Neville, Louis, Susan, Jinny and Rhoda, to the descriptions, in the beginning of each chapter, of a landscape, which is formed of waves, the sun and a house with a garden.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Other) |
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| Additional Information: | IB Notu: B |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell, The Waves |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| Depositing User: | Kamil Çömlekçi |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2012 08:17 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2019 09:34 |
| URI: | http://tedprints.tedankara.k12.tr/id/eprint/242 |
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