“Heaven was divinely merciful, infinitely benignant. It spared him, pardoned his weakness. But what was the scientific explanation (for one must be sc

Throughout Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf portrays society as illogical at times. With all its seemingly trivial concerns and obsessions, it is easy for readers to interpret England in the early 1920s as a ridiculous environment. With the infusion of a desire for a scientific explanation – the most logical of all arguments – suddenly Clarissa’s world becomes one more based in reality, moving out of the black hole of the sole worry of keeping up appearances.