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Definition and Examples of Interior monologue – Literary Terms
Interior monologue:
The presentation to the reader of the flow of a CHARACTER's
inner emotional experience, or STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS, at a particular moment.
Masters of the technique notably James Joyce; Virginia Woolf, Dorothy
Richardson, and William Faulkner--have managed to capture the swirl of
associations and IMAGES that characterize human consciousness. In Woolf's
short story “The New Dress," Mabel Waring attends a party in a new dress
she feels is not right. Her thoughts flow like this:
We are all like flies trying to crawl over the edge of the
saucer, Mabel thought, and repeated the phrase as if she were crossing herself,
as if she were trying to find some spell to annul this pain, to make this agony
endurable. Tags of Shakespeare, lines from books she had read ages ago,
suddenly came to her when she was in agony, and she repeated them over and over
again. "Flies trying to crawl,” she repeated. If she could say that over
often enough and make herself see the flies, she would become numb, chill,
frozen, dumb. Now she could see flies crawling slowly out of a saucer of milk
with their wings stuck together; and she strained and strained (standing in
front of the looking glass, listening to Rose Shaw) to make herself see Rose
Shaw and all the other people there as flies trying to hoist themselves out of
something or into something, meager, insignificant, toiling flies. But she
could not see them like that, not other people. She saw herself like that-she
was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects,
dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the
saucer.
See also:
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
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