Flux, Moment and Cycle: An Analysis of Time Consciousness in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf makes a start as modern novelist by observing not the outer world but the inner world of human consciousness. Since the base of her novels is atoms of impression in a moment, time seems to be one of her main themes. The time consciousness in the novels of Virginia Woolf can be analized from the three different dimensions of time: flux, moment and cycle. It seems that the end of To the Lighthouse is more complete, more stable and more filled with life than any other novel of hers, because Virginia Woolf is succeeded in representing the nature of life and the nature of literature in the perspective of time.