"Something
so trifling in single instances that no mathematical interment, though capable
of transmitting chocks in China, could register the vibration; yet in its fullness
rather formidable and in its common appeal emotional; for in all the hat shops
and tailors' shops strangers looked at each other and thought of the dead; of
the flag; of Empire (18)".
This
moment in the story is a huge and powerful moment. Woolf is suggesting that
everything in the world is, in some way, connected, and nothing can stop this,
no matter how big or small the power is. This could be reference to the government
and Woolf’s view on it. She could be saying that no matter what the government
does, they cannot stop society, because in the end, the people in the society
are the most powerful thing.
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