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“I
want
to
criticize
the
social
system,
and
to
show
it
at
< p>work,
at
its
most
in tense.”
Virginia
Woolf’s
provoca tive
statement
about
her
intentions
in
writing
Mrs.
Dalloway
has
regularly
been< /p>
ignored
by
the
critics ,
since
it
highlights
an
aspect
of
her
literary
< p>interests
very
different
f rom
the
traditional
picture
< p>ofthe
“poetic”
novelist
concerned
with
examining
st ates
of
reverie
and
vi
sion
and
with
following
th e
intricate
pathways
of
in dividual
consciousness.
But
Virginia
Woolf
was
a
reali stic
as
well
as
a
po etic
novelist,
a
satirist
and
social
critic
as
w ell
as
a
visionary:
li
terary
critics’
cavalier
dismiss al
of
Woolf’s
social
visio n
will
not
withstand
s crutiny.
In
her
novels,
< p>Woolfis
deeply
engaged
by
the
questions
of
how
individuals
are
shaped
( or
deformed)
by
their
soci al
environments,
how
histori cal
forces
impinge
on
peop le’s
lives,
how
class,
wea lth,
and
gender
help
t o
determine
people’s
fates.
< p>Mostof
her
novels
are
rooted
in
a
realistical ly
rendered
social
setting
and
in
a
precise
hist
orical
time.
Woolf’s
focus
on
society
has
not
be en
generally
recognized
beca
use
of
her
intense
antipat hy
to
propaganda
in
art.
The
pictures
of
reforme rs
in
her
novels
are
usually
satiric
or
sharply
< p>critical.
Even
when
Woolf< /p>
is
fundamentally
sympathetic
to
their
causes,
she
portrays
people
anxious
to
reform
their
society
and
< p>possessedof
a
message
or
program
as
arrogant
or
dishonest,
unaware
of
h ow
their
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political
ideas
serve
the ir
own
psychological
needs.
< p>(HerWriter’s
Diary
notes:
“the
only
honest
people
are
the
artists,”
whereas
“these
social
reformers
and
philanthropists…
harbor…
discreditable
desires
under
th e
disguise
of
loving
their
kind…”)
Woolf
detested
< p>whatshe
called
“preaching”
in
fiction,
too,
and
< br>criticized
novelist
D.
H.
Lawrence
(among
others)
for
working
by
this
method.
Woolf’s
own
social
cr iticism
is
expressed
in
th e
language
of
observation
rather
than
in
direct
commentary,
since
for
her,
fiction
is
a
contemplative,
not
an
active
art.
She
describes
phenomena
and
< p>provides
materials
for
a
judgment
about
society
and< /p>
social
issues;
it
is
the
reader’s
work
to
put
the
observations
together
and
understand
the
coher ent
point
of
view
behind
them.
As
a
moralist,
Woolf
works
by
indirection,< /p>
subtly
undermining
officially
accepted
mores,
mocking,
suggesting,
calling
into
questi on,
rather
than
asserting,
advocating,
bearing
witness:
< p>hersis
the
satirist’s
a rt.
Woolf’s
literary
models< /p>
were
acute
social
observer s
like
Chekhov
and
Cha ucer.
As
she
put
it
in
The
Common
Reader,
“It< /p>
is
safe
to
say
t
hat
not
a
single
law
has
been
framed
or
one
stone
set
upon
another
because
of
anything
Chaucer
said
or
wrote;
and
yet,
as
we
read
him,
we
are
absorbing
morality
at
every
pore.”
Like
Chaucer,
Woolf
chose
to
as
well
as
to
judge,
to
know
her
society
root
and
branch
—
a
decision
crucial
in< /p>
order
to
produce
art
rather
than
polemic.
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