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Write a note on the Stream of Consciousness or Interior Monologue.


Stream of consciousness:

Nobody cannot stop the flow of the river , it constantly moves similarly, Stream of Consciousness is the constant flow of thought of the characters into interior monologue that cannot be stopped in past, present and future.


Who Coined this Term?

William James in his Principal of Psychology (1890), used this term.

Quote:

“Consciousness… is nothing joined; it flows. A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.”


What kind of plot is used here?

Thought process of Character used as a plot to describe the details of mind flow thinking.


Characteristics of Stream of Consciousness:

  1. Continuously flow of unconscious thoughts of the character.

  2. Every minute details are described in the novel.

  3. It is a process of Thought, Feeling, Memories, Reactions.

  4. Not follow the Conventional rule of Syntax and Punctuation

  5. Totally connected to the problem of life of the character.

  6. Narrated as a first point of view.

  7. It is also called Interior Monologue, it means solo performance in the mind complexity.

  8. Flashback and Foreshadowing are the most important of it.

  9. It is also related to Psychological problem

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English Notes for the Students

Famous Novelist of the this type of technique:


  1. James Joyce*

  2. Virginia Woolf*

  3. William Faulkner*

  4. Hermann Hesse

  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky*

  6. Albert Camus

  7. F. Scott Fitzgerald

  8. J.D Salinger

  9. Leo Tolstoy

  10. Dorothy Richardson*

  11. Jack Kerouac

  12. Marcel Proust

  13. Toni Morrison

  14. Samuel Backett


Famous Novels of this Technique:


  1. Ulysses (James Joyce)*

  2. To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)*

  3. Pointed Roofs (Dorothy Richardson)*

  4. The Sound and  the Fury (William Faulkner)*

  5. Remembrance of Things Past (Marcel Proust)

  6. Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)*

  7. Molloy (Samuel Backett)*

  8. Beloved (Toni Morrison)*

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Explanation for English Honours and Master Degree students

Overview of some Novels of this Literary Technique:


"Ulysses" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man":


Irish writer James Joyce is the famous writer of this Technique. He not only wrote "Ulysses" but also Finnegan’s Wake is another work of Stream of Consciousness. In the Novel "Ulysses" is the complex one day detailed study of this Technique of Leopard Bloom's Interior Monologue. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is another great example of stream of consciousness. Here, the Hero Stephen Dedalus's stream of consciousness takes the highest peak by the touch of Epiphany.

Quote:

“I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could I be making here a true orgy of what's behind thought?”- (Ulysses)


"To The Lighthouse" and "Mrs. Dalloway"


Feminist writer Virginia Woolf masterfully blend the realitionship between Lily Briscoe and Mrs Ramsay's Stream of Consciousness to show the entire world  as a best Mother and a best painter in "To the Lighthouse" . In "Mrs Dalloway", the Psychological problem of Mrs Dalloway perfectly captured by the touch of this method also describes thoughts, experiences, and memories of several characters on a single day in London.

Quote:

"What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one". - (To The Lighthouse)


The Sound and the Fury:

American writer William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury is another example of stream of consciousness. In this Novel, present different types of behaviour, situations of Caddy, Jason, Quentine and Benjy through the critical thinking used of this Technique.

Quote:

" Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life". - (The Sound and The Fury)



Why is the stream of consciousness important?


  1. To Reduce the Mind stress.

  2. To understand Character's interior Feelings.

  3. To solve the unsolved problems.

  4. To keep myself motivated.

  5. To inspire, pick up a pen, get a notebook and begin writing.










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