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ANALYSIS ON THE NEW DRESS

by Virginia Woolf (A Requirement in Literature 2: World Literature)

Submitted by:

ARNEL B. DITAN JR.


A.B. Political Science

Submitted to:

IRENE LARGO
Professor

About the Author An English novelist , critic, essayist, short story writer, diarist, autobiographer and biographer Was born in London on 25 January 1882, the 3rd of four children of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia. Virginia did not receive a formal education, but access to their fathers extensive library provided a rich source for their private learning Her life was not easy because her mother died early, her brothers and sisters as well In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, a writer and socialist political figure A member of Bloomsbury Group Included of the circle of friends are: John Maynard Keynes Clive Bell Lytton Strachey Her famous works include the novels: To the Lighthouse Mrs. Dalloway A Haunted house An Unwritten Novel Virginia had a subsequent mental breakdown since she was a child, despite her successes, Woolf feared the onslaught of another breakdown, from which she believed, it would be impossible to recover and in 1941, she took her own life by drowning. In her last note to her husband she wrote: I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

About the Story Virginia Woolfs short story The New Dress was written in 1924. The story was published in the May 1927; it is about the feelings of a woman towards herself and her reaction to the behaviors of others when they meet her. It is also about the agonies and human experience in fashion. It was said that the author had ambivalent complex relationship with fashion. Meaning she gets a hard time of choosing what fashion that will fit on her. Probably, she wrote this short story to put her feelings when she experience being criticize by others to her fashion. Characters Mabel Waring

- A middle-aged woman with two children - Since she was a child, she has the feeling of Inferiority to other people

- She was invited in a social gathering. Mrs. Barnet

- Maidservant in the Dalloway household Clarissa Dalloway - The hostess of the party that Mabel attends Mrs. Dalloway -invited Mabel to the party Other guests in the party: Robert Haydon- try to cheer up Mabel but insincere way Rose Shaw dressed in the height of the fashion Charles Burt guest in the party that can change the life of Mabel Mrs. Holman the one share her family story and not detached to the party

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