'Moment of importance' in Mrs. Dalloway
For having lived in Westminster—how many years now? over twenty—one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
Percy Shelley's Death - 1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley died on July 8th, 1822 at the age of 29. He died off the coast of the Gulf of Spezia, which is on the north-western coast of Italy and in the northern part of the Tyrrhenian Sea. His boat was overturned during a storm that is described as happening suddenly. Shelley and his wife, Mary Shelley, had a house on this Ligurian coast, and Percy was inspired by the views and began a poem called "The Triumph of Life" -- a bit ironic, isn't it?
Monte Gennaro
The Monte Gennaro, also known as Monte Zappi and Pizzo di Monte Gennaro, is a mountain located in the Roman province. It is located in Lazio, Italy. Its peak elevation is 4,170 feet, and it is the highest mountain peak visible from Rome when one looks westward.
The Role of the Epigraph
In Chapter 65 of Middlemarch, Eliot opens with a quotation from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, setting up the reader's expectations for what the chapter is going to be about. However, by the end of the chapter the reader is surprised as the chapter takes a different turn to what the epigraph suggests. What role does the use of the literary device of the epigraph play in Middlemarch and what does it imply about Eliot's intentions for the readers of this novel?