VIRGINIA WOOLF - A BRIEF GLANCE ON HER LIFE, WORKS AND STYLE.

INTRODUCTION The stream of consciousness is a narrative technique on which so many writers have given their views whether they are essayist, novelists etc, but the most well known is Virginia Woolf who is considered as the forerunner of this style of writing. "Influenced by the works of French writer Marcel Proust and Irish writer James Joyce, among others, Woolf strove to create a literary form that would convey inner life. To this end, she elaborated a technique known as stream of consciousness"  (Bouzid) Richardson is the pioneer of the stream of consciousness technique. He is the first 20th century British author to publish a full length stream of consciousness novel Pointed Roofs. On one side was the little grey river, on the other long wet grass repelling and depressing. Not far ahead was the roadway which led, she supposed to the farm where they were to drink new milk. She would have to walk with someone when they came on the road, and talk. She wond...

Thanatos is a concept, in which the person feels that he or she can get rid of all his sorrows only by death. In fact  this urge for death exists in every person’s inner consciousness. At the same time there are people who feel that there is no death instinct in their personality,  because somewhere their life instinct is strong. Depressive and negative people  have more desire for death than life. For example in a drama called Hamlet by Shakespeare when Hamlet came to know that his father was murdered by his uncle and his own mother, he was in such an agony that he sighed and said: "To be or not to be … that is the question" It happens even when a person is very much happy, in that extreme joy, he or she sometimes feels to die. The word called 'Death' can be easily seen in Woolf's most of the novels like example in Mrs Dalloway. It’s like a ghost that cannot be expelled from the consciousness of the mind. The question which has been raised here is f...