An Analysis of the Music and Painting Characteristics in The Mark on the Wall 英语专业毕业论文.doc

An Analysis of the Music and Painting Characteristics in The Mark on the Wall Abstract: Virginia Woolf stands firmly among the best writers of stream of consciousness in the 20th century for her unique and penetrating ideas as well as her writing language, and her sensitivity and intelligence provides her an different spiritual world from her contemporaneous male writers. In her work, readers could smell the fragrance of nature, enjoy the journey of her floating minds, and appreciate the six movements cento performed by her words. In her work, writing is embedded into pictures, and music is flowing among the words. The Mark on the Wall is considered the first real work of stream of consciousness written by Virginia Woolf，so it is important to analyze the characteristics in this short story in order to know more about Virginia Woolf and stream of consciousness writing. In fact, in the short story, Virginia Woolf is not only writing a story for readers, but also painting and performing. Base on the analysis of the text and with the help of some painting and musical theories and skills, the paper aims at exploration and appreciation of the short story from the perspective of painting and music. Key Words: The Mark on the Wall; stream of consciousness; Virginia Woolf; music; painting Introduction After reading a story, readers may have a clear line about how the story starts , how it ends and may always remember the main characters or even paint the protagonists image in mind. However, in The Mark on the Wall readers could taste the flavor of a short story without character, plot and even exact drop scene. The sensitive female writer Virginia Woolf is one of the leading writers who opened the curtain to a new world in novel writing棗stream of consciousness, which is an literal trend in the early 20th century and regarded as the beginning of the modernist writinbg. The short story The Mark on the Wall is an experimental work and considered the first real strea