Thus if Woolf and Richard are “creator-artists” and Clarissa is the “daughter-creation,” Laura emerges as the third figure in a modern Trinity: the “mother-spirit. In the stunning opening scene of this inventive and mesmerizing film, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is. Even as she is drowning, Virginia marvels at everyday. from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham. From the suicides of Woolf and Richard to Clarissa’s steadfast embrace of life to Laura’s escape from life, the novel addresses the endurance of the soul. In 1941, Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning herself in the Ouse, a river in Sussex, England. Missing from his novel is any discussion of theology however, at its heart it does address issues of the meaning of life and death. This epigraph implies a third, hidden theme and encourages us to hunt for the true issue that fuels Cunningham’s work: the third tiger. Cunningham provides an epigraph that forces us to go beyond the surface. The Hours appeared in 1998 to great acclaim, acclaim that greatly surprised Cunningham, who sawthe book as a literary piece that would find, at best, a small. I see myself in the women of The Hours in a way I just couldn’t 13 years ago. Dalloway, and because I’m 44, not 31, and because I felt empathy for the characters closer to my own age now than I did when I was younger. Bio-pic tropes aside, The Hours is a finely crafted, smartly paced opera, one that maintains and even deepens the intricate narrative structure it inherits from the novel and the film. The Hours is also an exploration of modern issues including various forms of mental illness, alienation and identity, and the role of women in society. So, The Hours is a completely different book because I have now read Mrs. Playing on Woolf’s image of the “web” to connect characters in space, time and consciousness, Michael Cunningham uses Woolf’s novel to connect three generations of strangers. On the surface, The Hours is a modern retelling of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. The Hours By MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Farrar Straus Giroux Read the Review She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather.

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