| Abstract: | This article explores respectively Mrs.Dalloway's and Septimus Smith's defense mechanisms in Mrs.Dalloway.Either Mrs.Dalloway or Septimus Smith mainly resorts unconsciously to defenses like repression and isolation discharged by fantasies or images they create and memories.Their causes of repression and isolation are analyzed in this article as the traumatic female development in Clarissa's case and the scathing war experience in Smith's case.Besides this article especially elaborates on Septimus' death and... |
