... breakdown and eventually commits suicide. Woolf's use of water also proves to be symbolic. Water is something that cannot be contained, therefore it suggests irregularity. Despite that Clarissa is being seen as a realist by the others, she identifies herself strongly with different images of water, and these indicate the ... his madness to pour like water on him by imagining "the sound of water was in the room...Every power poured...on his head...when he was bathing, floating, on the top of the waves" (182). As such, Septimus is reaching the climax of his emotional disorder which makes ...

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