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‘To the Lighthouse’ by Virginia Woolf is a fairly diverse novel in terns of structure; there is no pattern to the length of each section in any of the three divisions. ... The form is highly flexible allowing for exploration into thoughts and actions , making Woolf’s overall narrative voice very fluent. ... ”
There is a constant prevention from giving the narrative voice a distinct identity; a technique that can be seen as a complex development of the free indirect style evolved by earlier writers such as Jane Austen.
Stream of consciousness, which is employed with singular skill by Woolf allows investigation to the nature of individual perception in relation to collective understanding. ... Analysing this, Woolf’s style of narration is more ambitious and subtle to that kind of interior monologue.
The difficulty of gauging different feelings of different characters at any precise time is insistent by Virginia Woolf at all times throughout the novel. ...
‘To the Lighthouse’ is full of attention to details that are seemingly trivial and irrelevant. ... Woolf, in the novel, prefers to work with these more closer details, to help with steady the stream of consciousness, looking at the countless sensations, insignificant actions and those unrecorded occurrences where human value can be found. ... ”
Shifting of viewpoints, makes the fluency of the narrative even more so.
Approximate Word count = 1030
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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