A clear example of an epiphany is the final scene from the 1968 Movie directed by Franklin J. Schaffner "Plante Of The Apes". In the movie, the main character, the astronaut George Taylor played by Charlton Heston, after waking up from hibernation finds himself in an unknown land populated by apes that govern the entire planet. After all the events that occurs throughout the movie, George in the classic scene walks into the statue of liberty and realises that he has been on planet Earth all along. This Epiphany leads to the realization that humanity had condemned our own planet to that fate.
I choose this movie because, even though is science fiction, and it is only related to Mrs. Dalloway in the sense that has an epiphany in it, it makes us think about what we are doing to our planet and what are we doing to nature for the sake of science.
By Daniel Palacios.
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ResponderBorrarI think that it is important to tell the concepts of epiphany and moments of being apart. The former, according to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epiphany means: “a moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way.” And the origin of the word is the following: “Middle English epiphanie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latinepiphania, from Late Greek, plural, probably alteration of Greek epiphaneia appearance, manifestation, from epiphainein to manifest, from epi- + phainein to show.” On the other hand, the latter concept, wasn’t clearly defined by Woolf, but we can infer its meaning in terms of its opposition since she defined “moments of non-being.” These are moments in which we are not consciously aware of, and as a result, are forgotten quickly. Then, moments of being are moments in which we are fully aware and experience life intensely. These kind of moments, as opposed to epiphany, lead to a hidden pattern of life, which gives us glimpses of connections to life and other human beings. This kind of connection is what is reflected at the end of Mrs. Dalloway, and that is why I think that the term epiphany is not the most adequated for Mrs. Dalloway.
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