VIRGIIA WOOLF

You have (hopefully) read a chapter from Woolf’s The Waves (1931). Now answer the
following questionnaire:

1. What characteristics of modernist writing did you find in the text?

2. Woolf wrote:

"Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the
world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and
emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the
thing itself."

(Moments of Being, 72)

She declared herself fascinated by the connection between literature and music,
and about how they give meaning to the world. How do you think this is made
evident in The Waves?

3. What does the novel tell us about perception and truth?