Stream Of Consciousness In Virginia Woolf's Works

Virginia Woolf, both as a writer and a critic, endeavored to explore the art of fiction, and her efforts contributed a lot to the Modernism literature of the twentieth century. Her fictions on stream of consciousness were Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves, which embodied her thoughts and innovation, looking deep into human mind and trying to represent the formless thinking with the most beautiful words. Her endeavors and experiments provided an excellent example for the perfect integration of content and form in fiction writing.Woolf made a tentative try of stream of consciousness in her book Jacob's Room (1922), but it is somehow restricted and tentative. But she soon made a success with Mrs. Dalloway, which employs a full and free use of stream of consciousness where the Density of time displays a profound contemplation of life. It's first success because this was the first time that Woolf had used this writing as her main method and this novel was well appreciated. Later, To the Lighthouse (1927) represented a mature express of her innovative writing, where she wrote more boldly and her characters were improved, representing her peak success with stream of consciousness and Absence of time. The Waves (1931) went still further with its poetic rhythm and highly symbolic frame, showing a highly abstract consciousness and extreme introspection. She started from the traditional writing to a search of inner mind and of its presenting method, and finally she landed on a perfection plane of fiction and poem.