• Ambish Malik

This paper presents the aftereffects of World War I. The violence, conflict and turmoil; humans had gone through during the war and after the wars, is presented very well by the modern novelists. Virginia Woolf very beautifully showcases the shell-shock in her novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925). Shell-shock is the term coined in World War I to describe the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder which affected the people during and after the Great War. A reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and combat that produced a helpless generation which is always appears in panic and being scared, flight, or an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk. It is more or less a psychological injury of the war. Although the war has been over for about five years when the novel is set, the residue of paranoia and shell-shock shape the psychology of the characters. Septimus Warren Smith, a World War I veteran, represents the shell-shocked person, suffering from mental distress caused by the hostile scenario of the war he had witnessed. The paper will throw a light on the aftermath of the war through the narrative by Virginia Woolf.

paranoia, shell-shock, trauma, war

"War and its Aftereffects in Mrs. Dalloway", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.277-280, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906C45.pdf

"War and its Aftereffects in Mrs. Dalloway", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp277-280, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906C45.pdf