The Hours by Michael Cunningham

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The Hours by Michael Cunningham

• "To look life in the faith, always, to look life
  in the faith, and to know it for what it is. At
  last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and
  then, to put it away." - Virginia Woolf in The
  Hours

Presented by Eva, Emily Brian
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Michael Cunningham

• born in Cincinatti, Ohio, on November 6th, 1952
• receive his B.A. in English literature from
  Stanford University, and his M.F.A. from the
  University of Iowa
• other worksWhite AngelSpecimen DaysFlesh
  and BloodA Home at the End of the World

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Introduction
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• Virginia Woolf tries to decide whether to have
  her character, Clarissa Dalloway, kill herself at
  the end of her book. Virginia eventually ends
  her own life, so her deliberations about Clarissa
  partly reflect her own personal struggle with the
  idea of suicide.

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• Laura Brown feels trapped by the constraints of
  her role as a suburban housewife and sees suicide
  as a possible escape.

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• Clarissa Vaughn dwells on the difference between
  her current life and the summer she spent in
  Wellfleet with her lover, Richard, at age
  eighteen.

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Comparison between the movie and the novel

• In the novel, Laura is portrayed as having dark
  hair and eyes. (slightly exotic looking)
• Laura is 4 years older than her husband, and she
  feels somewhat ashamed by this.
• Laura