12. Mrs. Dalloway: (pg 27) "Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree, to get outside his body, beyond his house, by means of thought, Einstein, speculation, mathematics, the Mendelian theory…away the airplane shot”:
Albert Einstein is a scientist of the 20th century who developed the theory of relativity. The Mendelian theory is about inherited genetic traits. Woolf uses the visual imagery of the soaring plane as it brings the story back to Clarissa. The reference to the famous scientists brings an intellectual tone. Education is for the benefit of man and the upper class, but upper class men and women would have been aware of Einstein and the Mendelian theory. Thus, Woolf manages to bring the story back to Clarissa both visually and intellectually.
“Albert Einstein.” Answers.com. 2009. 29 September 2009. http://www.answers.com/topic/albert-einstein
“Mendelian inheritance.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 29 September 2009. 29 September 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance
What are the principles of mendelian genetics? Answers.com. 2009. 29 September 2009.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_principles_of_mendelian_genetics&src=ansTT
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