¶ … Authentic Representations of Self universal theme of transitional literature is the sacrifice of self. Many characters, within some of the greatest works of literature express longing as a main theme, as if they are living a life that is not quite what they had in mind. DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Beryl Bainbridge and Doris Lessing, all develop characters within their works that establish the idea of a denial of authenticity of self. The four works and the four characters which best describe this sort of sacrifice of self are: Lawrence's Paul Morel in Sons and Lovers, Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway, Lessing's Susan Rawlings in To Room Nineteen and Charlie from Bainbridge's Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie.
Even from the start Paul Morel from Sons and Lovers was different. More delicate than other children and the expression of grief through depression that brought on tears is a foreshadowing of his life to come.
Then the mother would find the boy of three or four crying on the sofa.
What's the matter?' she asked, and got no answer.
What's the matter?' she insisted,... 'I don't know,' sobbed the child.
So she tried to reason him out of it, or to amuse him, but without effect. It made her feel beside herself...These fits were not often, but they caused a shadow in Mrs. Morel's heart, and her treatment of Paul was different from that of the other children.
Lawrence 58)
The longing that Paul showed for women and for love is a realization of the foreshadowing of his desire to live a life he was not allowed to live. The world into which he was born was not lavish. To many children to feed on a minor's salary and there was little real love between his parents. The only descriptive tool he had was from his brother who engaged in a kind of play at real love. Speaking of William, Paul's brother, "All the life that Bestwood offered he enjoyed, from the sixpenny-hops down Church Street, to sports and billiards.
Paul was treated to dazzling descriptions of all kinds of flower-like ladies, most of whom lived like cut blooms in William's heart for a brief fortnight.
Occasionally some flame would come in pursuit of her errant swain. Mrs. Morel would find a strange girl at the door, and immediately she sniffed the air.
(Lawrence 63)
When Paul has a love, that is approved of through, Miriam he feels compelled by longing to leave her for a married woman, Clara. Clara represents to him the transition between the old Victorian ideal woman and the newer more modern woman, complete with imperfections and vices. He tells here of their first meeting,
She [Mariam] was walking with a rather striking woman, blonde, with a sullen expression, and a defiant carriage. It was strange how Miriam, in her bowed, meditative bearing, looked dwarfed beside this woman with the handsome shoulders. Miriam watched Paul searchingly. His gaze was on the stranger, who ignored him. The girl saw his masculine spirit rear its head...He looked at her companion....she was nervous. 'Clara, do you know Paul?' think I've seen him before,' replied Mrs. Dawes indifferently, as she shook hands with him. She had scornful grey eyes, a skin like white honey, and a full mouth, with a slightly lifted upper lip that did not know whether it was raised in scorn of all men or out of eagerness to be kissed, but which believed the former. She carried her head back, as if she had drawn away in contempt, perhaps from men also. She wore a large, dowdy hat of black beaver, and a sort of slightly affected simple dress that made her look rather sack-like. She was evidently poor, and had not much taste
Lawrence 212)
Within Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf tells the story of a woman living a life she would not have chosen for herself. Though she only realizes this through reflection. As a character she endeavors to become what everyone else would like her to be. She becomes the perfect hostess and then looks back upon her life as if she did little if anything truly for herself. Clarissa speaking of her own life describes her sense of feeling as if she is nothing and her station in life is her...
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