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Time Passes, 6
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in To the Lighthouse, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Time
The Meaning of Life
The Nature of Interior Life
Art and Beauty
Gender
Summary
Analysis
Nights pass and turn into seasons, years. The house remains, the flowers return and return to the garden. The day seems “as strange as the chaos and tumult of night” with the trees and flowers “standing there…looking…yet eyeless, and so terrible.”
The text’s sense of time speeds up even further. Seen from this perspective, even the familiar elements of the natural world are unrecognizably strange to human eyes.
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