I must say, I do appreciate the nod Ms. Woolf gives to the historical aspect of London including it’s readers such as Keats for example. I do believe this shows us, the readers, the aspect of how much of the Britain history has an influence to writers such as the writers like Ms. Woolf. It shows the inspiration of Britain on others.  It seems as though we see more of the affects the war has caused among the soldiers. We see more about shell shock or rather the more current term PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) with soldiers when they come home, in particular with the young fellow Smith I believe….or perhaps it was…Septimus? I must say I am rather tired and I have some sort of allergy occurring so it is hard for me to even understand what I am saying while I review this selection. Ah, yes, perhaps it was about Smith because there is a line “he became engaged one evening when the panic was on him–that he could not feel”, “he surrendered; now other people must help him”; these lines showed us how family and loved ones also have to sit and suffer…by watching their soldier suffer. It is rather chilling and disheartening to say the least.  Dr. Holmes seems to have a rather sympathetic approach while helping his patients….however, Septimus writes “their only chance to escape, without letting Holmes know”…so maybe Holmes is not this rather sympathetic, warm doctor like I first thought. It seems as though the soldiers need to flee away from him as if they were trapped in some sort of asylum or horror they could not wake from.

Return to game