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The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  • "To look life in the faith, always, to look life
    in the faith, and to know it for what it is. At
    last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and
    then, to put it away." - Virginia Woolf in The
    Hours

Presented by Eva, Emily Brian
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Michael Cunningham
  • born in Cincinatti, Ohio, on November 6th, 1952
  • receive his B.A. in English literature from
    Stanford University, and his M.F.A. from the
    University of Iowa
  • other worksWhite AngelSpecimen DaysFlesh
    and BloodA Home at the End of the World

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Introduction
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  • Virginia Woolf tries to decide whether to have
    her character, Clarissa Dalloway, kill herself at
    the end of her book. Virginia eventually ends
    her own life, so her deliberations about Clarissa
    partly reflect her own personal struggle with the
    idea of suicide.

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  • Laura Brown feels trapped by the constraints of
    her role as a suburban housewife and sees suicide
    as a possible escape.

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  • Clarissa Vaughn dwells on the difference between
    her current life and the summer she spent in
    Wellfleet with her lover, Richard, at age
    eighteen.

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Comparison between the movie and the novel
  • In the novel, Laura is portrayed as having dark
    hair and eyes. (slightly exotic looking)
  • Laura is 4 years older than her husband, and she
    feels somewhat ashamed by this.
  • Laura
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