Exploration

  Extract No. 02 Page No. 45  [Lines, “What she had thought…..chief faults”] Read  the extract and do all the activities that follow.      What she had thought that evening when, sitting over teacups, Mrs. Dalloway’s invitation came, was that, of course, she could not be fashionable. It was absurd to pretend it even - fashion meant cut, meant style, meant thirty guineas at least - but why not be original? Why not be herself, anyhow? And, getting up, she had taken that old fashion book of her mother’s, a Paris fashion book of the time of the Empire, and had thought how much  prettier, more dignified, and more womanly they were then, and so set herself - oh, it was foolish - trying to like them,  pluming  herself in fact, upon being modest and old-fashioned, and very charming, giving herself up, no doubt about it, to an orgy of self-love, which deserved to be  chastised , and so rigged herself out like this. But she dared not look in the g...

    Unit 1.5  The New Dress                                   Virginia Woolf Extract No. 01 P age No. 44  [ Lines, “ Mable……….Drawing room’]         Mabel had her first serious suspicion that something was wrong as she took her  cloak  off and Mrs. Barnet, while handing her the mirror and touching the brushes and thus drawing her attention, perhaps rather markedly, to all the appliances for tidying and improving hair, complexion, clothes, which existed on the dressing table, confirmed the suspicion - that it was not right, not quite right, which growing stronger as she went upstairs and springing anther, with conviction as she greeted Clarissa Dalloway, she went straight to the far end of the room, to a shaded corner where a looking-glass hung and looked. No! It was...