Discourse recognition and analysis of hate speech in Virginia Woolf's “Mrs Dalloway”

Abstract

Hate speech is a notion that many people see as intuitively easy to grasp, while many others deny it is even an understandable concept. The present article aims to identify and examine the hate speech situations manifested in Virginia Woolf’s famous novel, “Mrs. Dalloway”. An alternative reading of the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” explores the seemingly minor character, but with a substantial impact on the unfolding of the plotline, Miss Kilman represents a secondary objective. Following the triangle, Clarissa Dalloway - her daughter, Elizabeth, and Doris Kilman, the present essay tries to explain the situations in which hate speech occurs in “Mrs. Dalloway”.