英文摘要 |
In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, the First World War sits between actuality and memory, thus offering readers a fit occasion to explore the historicized connections between machines, war memory, and everyday life. This paper focuses on Woolf's description of a motor car and an aeroplane in the opening pages of the novel, regarding the mechanization of everyday life in the novel as both mundane and menacing. On the one hand, the author has looked at how the two are described by Woolf as new modern transport in the early twentieth century. Technology was rapidly advancing at this time to improve and extend life. Motoring and flying in the novel represent two increasingly popular forms of speed that started to change the fabric of urban life in 1923. On the other hand, the author has also examined Woolf's representation of the car and the plane as two fearful objects. Technology had been used to wage a recently finished war of a mechanical kind, and Woolf's dystopian representation of the two machines pertains to the disturbing memories of the war. |