Medical Profession as Portrayed in Mrs. Dalloway
The author Virginia Woolf has embodied Interior Monologue, Stream of Consciousness , events from past and present and brief conversations in her novel. However dealing with the story of Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway she has included a long section dealing with the story of Septimus Warren Smith , of how he ended up in his insane situation and how his wife Lucrezia deals with his insanity. This insane situation clinically describes Septimus’s insanity as it becomes all the more horrifying. In the novel, we have Doctor Holmes and Doctor Bradshaw providing medical advice and treatment to the needy. The former is a general physician and the latter, a specialist. They are trained well to talk and explain the health issues connected with the well-being of citizens. Woolf deploys subtle mimicry to portray them. Later, it turns into a sharp satire. It is made clear by Woolf that the medical field in the novel posses no serious concern for the public health .. Holmes and Bradshaw ...