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IS VIRGINIA SANE OR INSANE?

Virginia Wool, by L.M. Cutta (CC BY-NC 2.0) by courambel "My Madness saved me"  Virginia's illness and ill behavior always raised a question on her mental status. Whether she is sane or insane? Woolf was declared mentally ill at quite an early stage in her life and this intense seized the whole issue of sanity and insanity. Woolf’s life was a bag of horrible experiences; she faced all the traumas from such a small age, sometimes with the serial deaths of her family members or sometime with the sexual torture by her step Brother. These tragedies, traumas, pains and its after effects which lead her to insanity can be easily seen in her works. Like in her novel Mrs. Dalloway the concept of sanity and insanity are majorly discussed. Virginia meant to show the world from both aspects, to compare how individuals perceive the same events and surroundings in different ways. The judgment whether somebody is mad or not often comes from on exterior source based o