Mrs. Dalloway and Septimus never encounter during their life. They seem very different and disconnect, but they both have the same state of mind. They both struggle from their life. As result, Mrs. Dalloway accepts her life as what it is, and Septimus releases himself by commit suicide. Somehow, they approach their life in a similar way. Virginia Woolf uses the quotation from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline: “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun/ Nor the furious winter’s rages,” this quotation means that there is no fear in death after struggle from all the difficulties of life. Mrs. Dalloway thinks that death is very natural after she experienced the deaths of her family. In addition, Septimus believes that his death will bring him freedom.

The appearance of both characters represent life and death, and they are connect by their belief of life and death. They symbolize a work of art in the world. They have their unique style of lives. It is different, but it is the same too. Mrs. Dalloway Hidden Pattern

Zhenhua Hong