Class 12 English — Chapter 15: The Mark on the Wall

What you'll learn

• ▸Stream of Consciousness Narrative Technique
• ▸The Mark as a Narrative Catalyst
• ▸Theme: The Nature of Reality and Perception
• ▸Theme: Critique of Social Conventions
• ▸Theme: Self-Perception and Identity
• ▸Critique of Patriarchy
• ▸Theme: The Haphazardness of Life
• ▸Virginia Woolf and Modernism

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- 12076CH15 2 The Mark on the Wall Virginia Woolf was a novelist and essayist. She grew up in a literary atmosphere and was educated in her father’s extensive library. The famous group of intellectuals which came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group originated in gatherings of Virginia’s home. Along with her husband, Virginia started the Hogarth Press which became a successful publishing house. In her novels, Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, she experimented with new techniques, particularly new ways of capturing the flow of time. She believed that much imaginative literature is false to life because it relates episodes in a straight line, whereas our experiences actually flow together like a stream. This essay records fleeting impressions and delicate shades of mental experience. Virginia Woolf …

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Did you know?

• 💡 Cave paintings, the oldest known art, are found on ancient walls.
• 💡 Most household dust contains tiny particles that have traveled globally.
• 💡 Your eyes make thousands of tiny movements every minute, even when still.
• 💡 Imagining something uses similar brain areas as actually seeing it.
• 💡 Some insects create tiny, round marks on walls when they lay eggs.

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