... committing suicide, he allows 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 his death inevitable. Apart from water, rose is also used as ... coldness, this woodeness, something very profound in her"(78). Peter recognizes this coldness is something "mortally dangerous" to Clarissa that he refers it to "the death of her soul"(77). Clarissa is well aware of her own coldness...

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