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I was always on the verge of death. The living held no appeal over my life. I was adrift in the world of the living but my soul was already dead. You may ask how can I be both dead and alive? I would answer that I was never alive to begin with. I was deposited in the world of the living to learn how unsuitable a place it was for me. I could never pick up a pen and not add something about death. Death was a fascination. It is what shaped my words. All you have to do is look at the sunken meaning rather than the surface meaning then you will see exactly what I mean. I mean to say that death is a beginning of a journey that we must take sooner o r later. The journey can be wondrous if we allow our lives to be great on this side. Death is the sweetest and final release that allows my words to reach out and teach other people. The immortality of my words and my own mortality is such a contradiction that I cannot help being intrigued with death. Death is a constant companion that is welcome. It is yet an un-grasped idea to a person fully immersed in the world of the living. The idea of death is not finality. Though bodies die, souls live on. Death becomes only final when we leave nothing in the world of the living to be remembered. Many people have died in this world many times over. Some have long been forgotten because their lives were insignificantly devoid of any remembrance. Others, after thousands of years are still talked about. That is the true meaning of death. People make death out o be as something cruel, something to be avoided at all costs, and something to be ignored until it sneaks upon you, but death is just like the color black. It is associated with all manners of evil, and finality, but death is not responsible for being dead. Death is just another state of being. To be truly alive, one has to have death for a world without death is a world where joy becomes too much the thing to be appreciated. People will forget to appreciate life. When appreciation of life is gone, then there is nothing more left. People will become stuck in an eternal languor. Virginia Woolf teaches that death is as much

Chenekan 2 a part of life ad it is not something to be feared. Death is as much important part of life that allows people to appreciate living more and allows them to leave behind something that the world will remember. The Hindu and Buddhist belief in the reincarnation of the soul is an attribute of how death is not final. According to Hindu beliefs, the soul lives on, and comes back each lifetime to learn what it failed to do in another lifetime. This belief is what makes death a journey to be lived so that we can reach that higher spiritual level. Death is the passage between the worlds that allow people to learn from their past mistakes. In Virginias Woolf Craftsmanship, she delves into the world of words and their meanings. Her examination comes from curiosity of the how a person uses words to make their feelings and beliefs known. It is in her words that you feel the desperation, the uncertainty and the depression that all leads to her fascination with death. When we look closely at her words, the meaning is hidden; it is through deciphering the meaning behind them that we feel the presence of death. Death leaps off the page and gains us entrance into the mind. Death is what gives the words written by Woolf, a sense of finality, and abruptness rarely seen. She does not simply writes her feelings, she allows us to decipher them. The journey to understand he words is what makes her unique. The words simply do not have one meaning. They are layered upon metaphors and at the end of the layers only death awaits. The shadows of her words allow the reader to see what it really means to be dead. Woolf s words made her to communicate her dissatisfaction with the world and it gives a glimpse of her life. In her novel To The lighthouse, Woolf once again shows her mastery with language. She uses metaphors and poetry to convey the meaning of death. To The light house which is about the Ramsey family and their friends, and Mrs. Ramseys son fixation in going to the light house. Woolf uses the light house to mark the passage of time

Chenekan 3 and the subsequent death of most of the main characters. She marks her characters in such a way that they live miserable lives and leave their dreams unfulfilled. Their death becomes another transition of their lives. The only way Woolf lets her reader see her meaning is by the tone of her writing. It becomes sullen. She makes the tone so sullen that the reader gets the idea that there is more than the words, that there is a complex metaphor that is a part of the meaning of her works. She does not plainly states what it is she means. She allows the reader to discern for themselves what her main idea is. Most of all, she allows the reader to draw their conclusion on death and what it means to them. She puts the idea down in her own words but does not draw conclusions. She plays death as an instrument, an instrument to be used to allow a glimpse of her inner self, an instrument that shows that death is an everyday occurrence that is not to be feared noor is it to be escapes. Another glimpse of death in Virginia Woolfs work is Mrs. Dalloway. This novel is about the day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway ad her constant recollection of her past. In this work Virginia creates a juxtaposition of events and a subplot that deals with the death of a patient of Dr. Bradshaw, an invitee at Clarissas party. Throughout the novel we see how Virginia Woolf creates a whole new style of writing. By allowing only one day in the lives of her character she creates a significant culmination by the death of warren smith who in himself was not part of the main story. The contrast between the jubilant preparartion of a party and the conclusion of the novel with a suicide show the apparent fascination with death by Virginia Woolf. Woolf does not only allow herself to create a simple inconsequent party, but puts intrigue by allowing another subplot to elevate death in a purely jubilant environment. In Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf allows the reader to ponder as to why she included the story of

Chenekan 4 Warren smith in the novel. Was it because Dr. Bradshaw was invited to the party? Was it because