“What image of white dawn in the country, as she read in the
book spread open:
Fear no more the heat
o’ the sun
Nor the furious
winter’s rages (9).“
Fear No More is a
Shakespeare poem about Time and Death. Shakespeare used simple language to
depict the struggles one goes through in life and how one must not hurry or
fear death, but should embrace it. Everyone must fearlessly face the end of his
or her lives. Woolf most likely chose this poem because one of the very
important themes of Mrs. Dalloway is fear of death. Throughout the book, the
topic of death keeps playing into the characters’ every day mundane activities.
Peter Walsh cannot bare to think about death, and Clarissa, having experienced
so many deaths in her own family, has to repeat this line from Shakespeare to
comfort her from the thought of death. In the end, Septimus embraces his own
death by committing suicide and Woolf presents an ironic conclusion to this
theme of fearing death. `
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