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The Mark on the Wall (Virgina Woolf)

CBSE · Class 12 · English

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Author and Background

  • Virginia Woolf grew up in a literary atmosphere and was educated in her father's extensive library.
  • She was a novelist and essayist, and her work is linked to modernist writing.
  • She wrote Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, where she experimented with new ways of showing the flow of time and thought.
2

Opening Situation and the Mark

  • The narrator first sees the mark in the middle of January, in winter, after finishing tea while smoking a cigarette.
  • The mark is described as small, round, black upon the white wall, about six or seven inches above the mantelpiece.
  • The mark immediately triggers a chain of thoughts.
3

Movement of Thought and Imagination

  • The narrator wants to think quietly, calmly, and spaciously, without interruption or obstacle.
  • The mind moves freely from the mark to memories, imagination, and general ideas.
  • Shakespeare is chosen as the first idea to steady the mind.
4

Social Rules, Generalisations, and the Old World

  • The narrator criticises generalisations because they bring back memories of fixed Victorian habits.
  • Sunday in London, Sunday walks, Sunday luncheons, clothes, and ways of speaking about the dead are linked with rigid customs.
  • There was a rule for everything in that period.

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The essay follows the narrator’s thoughtThe mark is first noticed asThe narrator repeatedly admits that nothingThe narrator prefers quietWhitaker’s Almanack and the Table

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