Mrs. Dalloway
Passages like “when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth” (16) and “later [Clarissa] wasn’t so positive perhaps; she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist’s religion of doing things for the sake of goodness” (76) betray, implicitly and explicitly, humanistic and atheistic views of the world. After reading them, I realized that God has played a continously decreasing role from early “great books” to later ones; God appears on every page in the Bible, St. Augustine, and the Koran, whereas God is sparsely mentioned or conspicously absent in Darwin, DuBois, and now Dalloway. Is God dead or just passé?
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