In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf uses different connections to explore the inner mind of both Clarissa and Septimus. Although the book was very confusing at first because I couldn’t understand the flow of the continuous sentences and it seemed a bit overwhelming, last Tuesday’s class clarified a lot. As I read more into the book, I started noticing more of these different connections that make it easier for us as readers to understand what the different characters are thinking as the day goes by. One connection that is seen often is one between the past, present and future. For example, both Clarissa and Septimus like to think about the what happened in their life before. Clarissa is constantly thinking about her life when she was younger and about her relationship with Peter, while thinking about her party that is supposed to occur at night. The topic of death is also something that comes up but she chooses to continue living despite the fact that she finds life quite lonely. Septimus also seems to connect his past with his present; he is constantly thinking about his friend who died in the war and even claims that he has seen him in the present. He also always tells his wife about taking his own life. Through their thinking process about different time periods, we learn more about their relationships with other people.

In terms of their connections with other, they seem to be lacking any actual genuine relationship . For example, although Clarissa is planning for her party in which others will attend, we can see that she seems to feel quite distant from her husband and Peter at some parts. In the case of Septimus, we can clearly see that there is a disconnect between him and his wife; his wife even talks about leaving him because she could not deal with him anymore and he seems to feel as if no one can understand him.

The human-like creature created by Victor Frankenstein in “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley has a strong resemblance to the creature described in the poem, “The Tyger” by William Blake. As we continue to hear his story in the book, we discover that the creation of the creature in “Frankenstein” and the several monstrous acts he committed can be seen within the lines of “The Tyger.” For example, in the poem, Blake continually questions the creator of the tiger; in the first and last stanza, he writes, “What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” He describes the creator as “immortal” and even daring, since he had the ability to create this beautiful yet deadly animal, which is described as “burning bright in the forests of the night,“ having a twisted heart, and being a “deadly terror”. Blake continues questioning and asks whether its creator was smiling once his work was done. We can assume that he asks this question because he wants to know the reaction of creating something that is both so dangerous and aesthetically appealing to the eye.

Like the tiger, Frankenstein’s creature also has fearsome features, yet was seen as beautiful at its birth; Frankenstein describes, “Beautiful – Great God!….his hair was a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes…” (Shelley, 49). Frankenstein first sees the creature as a beautiful one but slowly develops feelings of hatred and disgust, especially after he concludes of its destructive actions towards the human species, as we learn later on in his involvement of the deaths of William and Justine. Much like the description of the tiger, the creature has a twisted heart in the way that he now despises the human species; he is also dangerous because of his bigger body frame. Therefore, I believe he is more like the tiger than the lamb since the lamb is described as more of an innocent creature, unlike the “deadly terror” that Frankenstein has created.