International Journal of Language & Literature

The Notions of ‘Subject’ and ‘Ideology’in Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”
Dr. Farid Parvaneh, Mitra Salari

Abstract
This paper is an attempt to study the notions of Identity and Self and its formation through the intrusion of Ideology in “The Mark on the Wall”. Virginia Woolf had already been well-introduced as a feminist critic and themes such asthe elusive nature of storytelling and character study, the nature of truth and reality, and the role of women in society had been thoroughly explored in her short stories. Being known as the master of stream-of-consciousness and one of the pioneers in internal monologue, her notions of ‘Self’ and ‘Identity’, with their striking resemblance to Freudian notion of ‘Subject Formation’ have indeed yet not received the appropriate consideration in the researches and deserves more attention. Explorations drawing on her notions of ‘Subject Formation’, inevitably lead to Althusserian- Gramsciai‘Ideology’/’Hegemony’, as well as the power struggles and ‘Dissidence’ concealed in the unconscious of the text.

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