The Mark on the Wall Virginia Woolf

Stories are never told by simply listing what happens, and in fact narratives are produced using a wide combination of literary techniques such as time fragmentation, intertexual references and metaphorical imagery. Here, it is necessary to...

“Everything’s moving, falling, slipping, vanishing… There is a vast upheaval of matter." (Woolf 89). In Virginia Woolf’s 1917 “The Mark on the Wall”, the narrator is reflecting on the day she saw a marking on her wall and became utterly perplexed...

‘How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it…’

Virginia Woolf’s The Mark on the Wall suggests a number of ways of considering the mundane in...

Virginia Woolf’s The Mark on the Wall as an archetype of the stream of consciousness literature explores the mystery of the unconscious through a first-person thought process and self-reflection. The story which centers on the narrator...