Which theme is common to the two excerpts?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (excerpt) He had not died but he had faded out like a film in the sun. He had been lost or had wandered out of existence for he no longer existed. How strange to think of him passing out of existence in such a way, not by death but by fading out in the sun or by being lost and forgotten somewhere in the universe! It was strange to see his small body appear again for a moment: a little boy in a grey belted suit. His hands were in his side-pockets and his trousers were tucked in at the knees by elastic bands. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (excerpt) Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? but that somehow in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things, here, there, she survived, Peter survived, lived in each other, she being part, she was positive, of the trees at home; of the house there, ugly, rambling all to bits and pieces as it was; part of people she had never met; being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best, who lifted her on their branches as she had seen the trees lift the mist, but it spread ever so far, her life, herself.

A.) the absence of love
B.) the fragile nature of existence
C.) the question of reality
D.) disillusionment with the world

The fundamental topics of this poem are nature and human involvement in natural beauty. It also hinted at another theme: human impact on the environment.

The poem offers an adult's perspective on why he goes across the hills and how this chance encounter is a blessing in his loneliness.

Thus Option B is correct.

What are your thoughts on both excerpts?

Stephen's development as an individual character is significant because it allows Joyce to express his dissatisfaction with Irish society's tendency to make individuals conform to stereotypes, which some interpret as a modernist character.

There, Joyce expresses themes that run through his later writings. Mrs. Dalloway depicts a single day in the life of a woman from sunrise tonight.

Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class housewife, goes on a walkabout her London neighborhood to get ready for the party she'll be throwing later that evening.

When she gets home from flower shopping, she is surprised to see Peter Walsh, an old suitor, and acquaintance.

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