... in his own life. Most of the time he will learn a lesson, realize some truth, or derive some meaning through the events of the novel. Despite this common thread throughout contemporary fiction, both Virginia Woolf and Michael Cunningham choose to add a twist to this common theme in modern literature. In Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf chooses to have the successful character, Septimus ... , kill himself, while in The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Richard, one of the successful characters of the novel, kills himself too. It is a very strange twist that both authors have added to modern litera...

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... , but on the whole, lesbian feminists have guided other feminists into new appreciation of certain female traits in writing. They have also brought to forefront the works of lesbian authors (Guerin 238). 2.2. Queer Theory In the early 1990s, another group of literary theorists and critics developed from gay and lesbian studies: queer theory. Unlike gay and lesbian studies ... 146). Chapter 5 Conclusion 5.1. Summing up and Findings Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, concern "with the ambiguity of sexual identity and desire" (Schiff 364), makes it very interesting for contemporary readers, who are faci...

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