The first of the stories focuses on Virginia Woolf in 1923 on the day she begins writing the novel that will be Mrs. This represents the universal need for feminism: all women’s stories are different, but we all suffer from oppression. Despite their differences in appearance, life, and time, Virginia, Laura, and Clarissa all suffer from misogyny in some form. This intertwines the women’s stories, displaying their similarities, without putting them in the same scene or even the same decade. Further, the movie begins in 1941 with Virginia Woolf’s suicide before cutting back to 1923. The movie does not flow in chronological order, instead the focus shifts from timeline to timeline, following each of the women. The Hours follows one day in the life of Virginia Woolf in 1923, Laura Brown in 1951, and Clarissa Vaughn in 2001. In this paper I will discuss the feminist themes of The Hours, it’s downfalls, and why this text helps me. They face different issues of oppression according to the time they are living in, but all face suppression and suffer from quiet desperation that many women experience. The film follows three women across three different decades, one of them Virginia Woolf herself. Years later, when I had come to terms with my bisexuality, I understood that I was drawn to the themes of repressed sexuality in the movie. I watched it again and again, drawn to it but not sure why. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, I had just turned 14. I first saw the 2002 film, The Hours, an adaption of The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Mrs.
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