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Analysis in Kew Garden

Virginia Woolf's "Kew Garden " is ,I think , very erotic. Virginia Woolf intetionally used nouns , verbs , small descriptions that are very typical Freudian symbols . Starting from a romantic atmosphere , the story is even erotic to a certain extent where the key for the episodes is hidden in the the separated part. To express my imagination , I shall enlist some of them :
In the begining , "From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps..." Because of the oval-shaped word I think of an egg which means the mystery of life and the forces of generation, according to Freud's Psychological Approach. In line 5 " The petals were voluminous enough to be ..." The petals are the symbol for labia of vula . In line 8 , "The light fell either upon the smooth , grey back of a pebble, or the shell of a snail with its brown , circular veins , or falling into a raindrop , it expanded with such ..." snail and shell are the most typical symbols for female sexual organ , Virginia Woolf starts to pil...

Posted by: Garrick Christian

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