Eternity In Fluidity

Vrginia WOol f is a highly self conscious examiner of the consciousness, a boldexperimenter of the novel-wrting. Her best novels, following the natUral falling order ofthe consciousness, have woven a series of illuminating momenis into a whole, in which ispenetrated her subtle awareness. To the Ldethouse, one of her masterpieces, has perfectlyexemPlified the beauty and himony embedded in the novels of the stream-ofconsciousness on the basis of minimizing the facts.Various interpretations of To the Ldethouse, both home and abroad, mainly focus onthe specific perspectives as characterization, symbo1ism, narrative techniques, mythicpattem and so on. Few of them expound uPon the macrostructhe. The systematic andoverall analysis of TO the Lopthouse is hard to arrive at its sufficiency, owing to thesuPerficial chaos of the novel arising from the namre of the consciousness, plus as WoolPsunique narrative mode. The dissertation holds that the novel conceals a huge orderlinessand cohesion under its facial disorder and aims to justify this inconspicuous orderliness.Thre-level sttticforal system is exposed in the dissertation, namely, the extemal reactors,the middle sonata fOrm, and the inner tension and cohesion, with the pmpose to dissolvefluidity, ambiguity and obscurity of the consciousness, to endow disorder with ordeT, toreveal solidity from fluidity, then consequently sublimate the unique beauty and hannony ofthe WOolflan novels of stream-of consciousness from macro-viewThe dissertation consists of five chaPters. The first chaPtef, "Introduction", is anexposition of Wooles artistic style and writing feature, and a brief review of the criticismon To the Ldethouse. Included in this chaPter is also the aim of the dissertation: to revea1 arelatively stable structural system in the chaotic process of consciousness to give expressionto WoolPs mastery of beauy and hannonyThe second chaPtef, "Externa1 Structufe: Reactors on Selected Moments", is devotedto the extema1 sttuctUre of TO the Lhothouse. The superficial texture is the combination ofthe reactors. The reactors here bear the meaning as the accumulation of different reactions66 Etemity in Fluidity: StrUctural Property of To the Lopthousewhich are scattered on selected moments. All the disjointed and illogical impressions,thoughs and modes are fallen into the category of "reaction". WOol f believes that themeaning of life lies in the "little daily miracles", in addition she knows quite well thecharacteristics of the stream-of consciousness, therefore she stTesses the "moments" of life.The selected moments are perceived through various perspectives, and the multiplicity ofthe perspectives leads to the certainty of the presentational chaos of the reactions, therefOrethe presentation of the reactors is also numerous. The reactors in the novel can be dividedinto tWO main grouPs, reactor of the characters, and reactor of the narrator and the amhor.The spread-out of the novel is through the media of the characters, then the reactor of thecharacters is the significant cAner of the meaning in the novel. The reactor of thecharacters is further divided into the single voice reactof, double-voices reactor and multi-voices reactor. The double-voices reactor is formed by way of one focus, series connection. and juxtaPosition. In the reactor of the narratof, the narrator can be either the imitator orindependent entity; Whereas the authorial conunent is worked from the exterior textUre intothe interior. On the whole what is most adopted is the synthesis of all kinds of reactors.ChaPter 3, "Middle Structure: Musical StruCfore -- Sonata Form", by Way of thetransPlantation of the musical techniques and form, elaborates the dynamic sense andhannony in To the Ldethouse. The commonly used sonata form involves the presentationof thematic material on tWO tonal levels, the working out of several thematic elements, andthe retUm of the thematic material on a single tonal level. The distribution of the sections inthe novel corresponds with that of the sonata fOrm. The first section, "The Wndow",...