Modem life abounds in complete distortion of values. She eats greedily which means that she has a spiritual appetite for domination, and her external ugliness and shabbiness are but symbols of her inner ugliness. She does not love Elizabeth, but she wants to dominate and possess her soul in order to take revenge upon her mother. She is frustrated from within, which makes her embittered from within, and is filled with an inveterate hatred for those who are more fortunate and enjoy all the good things of life. We do not find in her the elements of love and religion. She symbolises all that is worst in religion, religious fanaticism, intolerance and bigotry. Dalloway exposes the corrupt religiosity and possessive love” of the present day English society. Through Doris Kilman the novelist in Mrs.

Symbolism of Satire on Religious intolerance He stands as a severe indictment of contemporary civilisation, which through all its horrors of war and ruthless competition, produces neurosis, restlessness, nervous breakdown and insanity. The outward glitter of this civilization is symbolised by Clarissa, the “perfect hostess”, with her chain of repeated parties staring at the stars and welcoming everybody with joy : “How delighted to see you.” Septimus Warren Smith is her double, as such he concretizes her spiritual state. Externally it is all culture and refinement and polish it is characterized by peace and comfort to all outside appearances but on looking deeper into it we find that there is hypocrisy, neurosis, insincerity, dissimulation and total spiritual bankruptcy prevailing in it. The Dalloways symbolize the outward frame-work, the external glitter, the outward pomp and show of a civilization which, by and large is shallow, superficial, hollow and rotten from within.

Various characters embody various aspects of the cotemporary western civilization. Symbols help the novelist in two ways : to translate the psyche of her characters and to convey her scathing denunciation of a spiritually hollow civilization.

Dalloway looks inward more than most of the other novels of Virginia Woolf’s day hence symbolism sweeps through the very design of novel. Vague sensations and fleeting emotions that pass through the human consciousness are to be depicted by them and this task is not so easy as it appears. Stream of consciousness novelists have employed symbols to convey complex mental conditions and states. Symbols enhance the expressiveness of the language and enable the writer to suggest what cannot be conveyed by the ordinary resources of the language. They convey the meaning of the writer besides they have a heritage of rich associations and emotions. Symbols are words which in their use are connotative as well as emotive and evocative. Symbols of Alternation of Day and Night.Symbolism of Satire on Religious intolerance.

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