Decisions that May Shape our Destiny
Decisions that may shape our Destiny
“ Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved”(William Jennings Bryan) Both Septimus and Clarissa, two unrelated narratives, fell into the superego stage. They both believed that what they had to do were necessary to be expected and what was necessary to be achieved. Clarissa’s relationship with both her childhood love, Peter Walsh, and her present husband, Richard Dalloway, helped to clime from the id to the superego. Her life has been spent in regret and sorrow, forcing her to think suicidal thought like Septimus and living everyday not knowing real love. Clarissa always believed in finding her own destiny, she found it, she just took the wrong road path too it. Clarissa is very heart broken woman who made the wrong choice to her destiny and future. In the novel Mrs.Dalloway, Virginia Woolf uses the element of conflict to illustrate the theme that one shapes their own destiny and future.
Through the character of Peter Walsh, Woolf uses conflict to show how one makes their own destiny. Peter sat down beside Clarissa, and everything seemed to race past him “he just sat there, eating, and then half way through dinner he made himself look across at Clarissa for the first time”(61). Peter was very much in love with Clarissa. Every time Peter saw Clarissa it was like for the first time, his eyes would light up and in his mind he would think she was my destiny that’s filled with our future. He wanted to marry her he thought they where destined to be together. He expressed his love by bringing the fun to her life, meaning taking her to new places and doing new things. Peter wanted to be with her to see their future together but she just didn’t get the picture. Clarissa loved Peter very much but in her mind Peter was the guy “that had no heart, no brain, nothing but the manners and breeding of an English gentleman”(7). Clarissa, at the time, id personality, made her want more and more and his is what she loved most about him, his on going personality. Peter Walsh loves Clarissa very much but he couldn’t give her the kind of life that Richard could....