Language, Consciousness, and the Human Interior: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Woolf’s to the Lighthouse
American Journal of Student Research 2025 Da-Young Choi
This narrative review examines the ways that Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse expose human consciousness in different linguistic and stylistic modes: soliloquy and stream of-consciousness. Relying on A. C. Bradley’s interpretation of the soliloquy, William James’s conception of consciousness as a “stream,” and the aesthetics of modernism, this paper proposes that both...