Woolf Personal Narrative And Impersonal Narrative Of The Novel

This thesis is dedicated to researches on the characters of the impersonality and that of the personality in Virginia Woolf’s fictions, and on the relationship between narrative texts and its author.In the context of Virginia Woolf’s four novels—Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and The waves, the techniques of narrative impersonality and personality are examined in this thesis.Woolf recommended the impersonality in theory, but in her novels the impersonality goes with the personality in the context. With the technique of changing narratives in her novels, Woolf expressed her individual view by means of the characters’words.Modern novels influenced much those characteristics of non-individual and individual in Woolfs novels. It made Woolf’s novels move toward individual gradually in form; whereas in content personality narrative makes it clearer. Woolf wanted to express her own views while striving to approach personage’s inners objectively. It is rewarding for female writers to experiment on new novel forms and languages. To a certain extent, her efforts made female writers get a new choice to write novels, and thus female writer’s works can express personal views freely and have the potential for acceptance by the public.