Virginia Woolf’s Life Struggle with Depression and Illness through the Lens of Her Characters
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Автор:Daniela Anisiei Bachelor’s degree English-French Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Faculty of Letters
Research advisor: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Culea Phd., Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Faculty of Letters
Reviewer: Assoc. Prof. Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva, PhD
KONSTANTIN PRESLAVSKY UNIVERSITY OF SHUMEN
FACULTY OF LETTERS, VASILE ALECSANDRI UNIVERSITY OF BACĂU ============================= Abstract: From the perspective of psychological trauma, some of Virginia Woolf’s characters appear to mirror her own life battle with mental health. There are pieces of her own struggle that she appears to have placed inside her characters’ life stories, as a means of writing out her own suffering. This device is now acknowledged by some critics as ‘Scriptotherapy’, and Virginia Woolf mastered it successfully. Her character, Warren Septimus Smith, was not only a victim of the war, but he was also sacrificed by the flawed patriarchal medical system of that time – with Virginia herself speaking from her own experience of the tragic encounter with its rigidity, incompetence and lack of empathy. Key words: Virginia Woolf, trauma, grief, mental health, scriptotherapy
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