Similarities in the Film The Hour and Mrs Dalloway

Similarities in the Film The mo and Mrs Dallo dashThe similarities in the themes of the film The Hour and the novel Mrs. Dalloway.The Hours is a 2002 movie directed by Stephen Daldry and Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway has the similarities in the theme of homosexuality. Both the film and the novel depict all its action in unity wholeness day. Clarissa Dalloway in the novel and Clarissa Vaughn in the film wonder if they shoot the right decision to aim the right person to spend their lives with. Both the film The Hour and the novel Mrs. Dalloway are absolute masterpieces.Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway tells the tale of an ideal day in the eyes of Clarissa Dalloway. It is confined to one single day, Wednesday in mid-June 1923, culminating in a party given by Clarissa Dalloway at the end of the day. Its also limited to one place, London, and emotionally to the kin of Mrs. Dalloway with her husband Richard Dalloway, Peter Walsh, chap Seton, and Septimus Warren Smith.Clarissa Dallowa ys character is developed through the thoughts which pass through her thought in one single day at different times. Whenever the big bang chimes or the backfiring of the force back engine, the point of view shifts regularly from one character to a nonher and sometimes happens within one single sentence. At severally shift, the designer provides an indirect look into the characters thoughts and emotions. The narrator just reports the characters thoughts. For example, Clarissa sleeps in her own mode and her isolation is a sexual failure to connect with her husband Richard. She imagines herself as a virgin nun in a white dress Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door, she hear the swish of Lucys skirt, she felt equal a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her acquainted(predicate) veils and responses to old devotions. (Woolf 29) The verb felt and feel shows that the narrators knowledge of the interior of the main character. Such a rad ical report technique causes a great confusion to readers, yet at the same time enlightens the meaning of her story. From the get-go to the end of Mrs. Dalloway, there are no parts or chapters. The structure of this novel is very compact, which is strong in one single day on purpose. All the incidents happen in the novel is committed with each other very well. The technique that Woolf uses is the stream of consciousness which also enriches her writing.Stephen Daldrys The Hours has the same path of Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway by depicting all its action in a single day, where events take place in tether different years. The first event captures Virginia Woolf in 1923, preparing to write the novel, Mrs. Dalloway, in her theater, Richmond, London (Daldry, The Hour). The other year 1951, depicts the troubled, lady of the house Laura Brown moves from her marriage or animateness to read the novel, Mrs. Dalloway (Daldry, The Hour). The third year shows the New Yorker, Clarissa Vau ghan, in 2001, dedicating her entire day preparing a party for her college days friend and lover Richard. The party is in honor of Richard, an HIV-positive poet, and author about to receive a prestigious award that he finds little meaning in it (Daldry, The Hour). Clarissa Dalloway in the novel and Clarissa Vaughn in the film are throwing parties in Richards honor and both chose the same flowers. The film The Hour and the novel Mrs. Dalloway have a close correlation in terms of both the story order and unfolding of the characters in the film closely captures the characters in the novel.In Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway, the theme of homosexuality takes a major part, where Mrs. Dalloway herself as the main character of the novel, does not enjoy her marriage because of poor communication and lacking of connection. Clarissas husband, Richard Dalloway, comes home with a bunch of flowers meant for his wife. However, he fails to tell Clarissa that he loves her because he could not bring himself to say he loved her not in so many words. (118) On the other hand, Clarissa gets distracted by the memories of Sally Seton, her childhood friend and loves interest, with whom she shared a kiss, which she defines as The most exquisite moment of her whole lifeand she felt that she had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it- a diamond, something infinitely precious. (35) Mrs. Dalloway has never forgotten about Seton, who is now married to Lord Rosseter and has five boys. Clarissa Dalloway aspires to be like Sally, but she fears judgment from society about her potential homosexuality, which is one of the reasons behind her marriage does not flourish.On the contrary, in Stephen Daldrys The Hours, the theme of homosexuality is developed and portrayed in the form of the ten-year intimate relationship mingled with Clarissa Vaughn and Sally Lester. Ten years is a long time for Clarissa and Sally to live together in the same apartment sharing ev erything that a husband and wife shares. Clarissa Vaughn in The Hour differs from Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway because she chose to not to be with Richard and ended up with Sally. Also, in the film The Hour, the interesting parts are the women in each era of the film shared a kiss with another woman. For example, Lauras neighbor Kitty drops in to film her if she can take care of Lauras dog while Laura is in the hospital for a procedure. Kitty pretends to be cheerful however, Laura feels Kittys fear and boldly kisses Kitty on the lips (Daldry, The Hour).Both Stephen Daldrys The Hours and Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway present a unique way of constructing stories. The idea of developing the story depicts all its action in one single day, demonstrates the creative nature of both the author Virginia Woolf and the director Stephen Daldry. The story revolves on a single day, yet, they are able to fork up the significant message with the similarities in the theme of homosexuality t o the reader as a novel and film, that could have considered different writing angles. Director Stephen Daldry has done a fantastic job of delivering Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway into his own modern retelling, The Hours. deeds CitedThe Hours. Dir. Stephen Daldry. Paramount Pictures. 2002. Film Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. New York Harcourt, Brace, 1925. Print.