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VIRGINIA WOOLF AND CONCEPT OF WAR FARE IN HER NOVELS

"World War II, June 1944 Normandy" (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Tjflex2 The first world war as a catastrophic break, and as the event which shaped the twentieth century, overshadows Virginia Woolf's work. In her novels there is often a violent moment of destruction or obliteration. All the lights go out; there is a roaring blackness and a sense of ‘complete annihilation’. (Lee 336) Two years after Virginia Woolf's marriage, the First World War broke out ending that period of relative security and stability which all those at least, in western world, which grew up before 1914, look back upon with nostalgia. For Virginia it was a horrible and nerve shattering experience. She already has a sensitive soul because of tortured abused childhood. After witnessing the world war, she became weak and sick consequently she suffered from constant fits of depression. But she continued to work hard with her works.  "Her own apprehension of end attraction to death creates