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

INTRODUCTION Sigmund Freud initially described in his book Beyond the Pleasure   Principle that “the goal of all life is death”  (Cherry)  He has observed that, "After people experience a traumatic event (such as war), they often re-enact the experience. He concluded that people hold an unconscious desire to die, but that this wish is largely tempered by the life instincts."  (Cherry) Freud's view says that self deteriorating and destructive behavior is an expression of the energy which is built by the death instincts. When this energy is directed outward onto others, it is expressed as aggression and violence. Thanatos is a concept, in which the person feels that he or she can get rid of all this sorrows only by death. This urge for death exists in every person’s inner consciousness many people feel that there is no death instinct in their personality because somewhere their life instance is very strong. Sometimes person has more desire for d...

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...