- "Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winter's rages." (p. 9)
Virginia Woolf alludes to Shakespeare's play,
Cymbeline, as Clarissa looks into Hatchards' flower shop
window. This excerpt is a line from a funeral song in the play which celebrates death after a complex life. Death is constantly on Clarissa's mind throughout the novel; she is very frightened by the concept. These lines appear further into the story as a reminder that Clarissa should not necessarily consider death a scary concept, just one that should be accepted and realized it exists. As the song preaches, death should be a celebration of one's life and show signs for a peaceful future.
Works Cited:
"Cymbeline."
Wikipedia. Web. 27 Sept. 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbeline.
Photo Credit:
Imogen Discovered in the Cave of Belarius. Photograph. Wikipedia. Web. 27 Sept. 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Imogen_Discovered_in_the_Cave_of_Belarius_-_George_Dawe.jpg.
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