had-for my own sins, I suppose-to go through the ordeal of looking into it myself." (Darkness 113). Marlow fears this part of himself, the part that could easily be conquered by darkness and insatiable appetites, and therefore must confront this part of himself in order to move forward and complete his personal journey.
             In Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa is suffering from her own issues with choices she made in the past, from her shallow party throwing image, and the issues she has in relation to herself as a woman, and a wife. She is constantly examining her internal worlds and trying desperately to control her thoughts. Septimus does not even see the difference between reality and imagination, and in that way is in a constant struggle with the people around him who are attempting to bring him some sort of clarity. He works as Clarissa's shadow self in that he believes that a lack of feeling is a crime. "He had gone through the whole show, friendship, European war, dea
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