The Politics of Heteroglossia in Woolf’s The Waves

Abstract

This research analyzes how different voices in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves sing variously on a single theme. The researcher examines how Woolf uses ‘multiple voices’ in order to expose the diversity of life and the great complexity of human experience during the early twentieth century. This study is concerned with an unexpected event and how that event leaves the most terrible marks on the person’s self, identity, psyche, emotions and beliefs. Woolf’s novel represents the multiple voices of characters and it represent the diversity of life. Woolf focuses on multiplicity on this novel. The researcher examines multiple voices of characters, determine nature, in this novel, andthe wavesthe beach scenery in the novel andit represents thenature of individual characters and their lives. Applying M.M. Bakhtin`s terms monologism, heteoglissia and dialogism together with Woolf`s and Bakhtin`s theory the use of heteroglossia as a method to interoperate the Wave by focusing in multiplicity of human voices which creates diversity within single society, the research also suggest that there is similarities between Woolf’s and Bakhtin’s views and this interconnection could be result of interdisciplinary interpretation of The Waves.