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The first time I played Animal Crossing was probably in middle school. I booted up dolphin emulator and I would just play as a villager among a town of wacky animals.  The game took a step back into more relaxing gameplay, unlike others I played.  I could fish, dig up fossils, catch bugs, buy furniture, decorate my house, and organize parties with loan shark raccoons.  (Sound familiar huh? New Horizons wasn't a revolutionary game either).   Now why did I just ramble about Animal Crossing?  It was a very conservative gameplay that tried to emulate a conservative lifestyle.  But it was Addictive .   It felt like careless life.  No homework, no school, just make money from fishing and bug-catching, pay off my debt to the loan shark raccoon, buy furniture and clothes, and decorate the house.  And while I do belief to some extent that Clarissa Dalloway was socially pressured into her Conservative lifestyle, it also had an addictiveness that c...

  Throughout Mrs. Dalloway, we see several references to Clarissa's Husband, Mr. Richard Dalloway.  As far as we all know, he is a conservative politician in the parliament of the United Kingdom.  Otherwise, up until this point, he is considered "a minor character".  In this blog post, I have tried to mirror the setting and characters of the story into the relative social politics of today.  Yet, the stark contrast between liberalism and conservatism is brought up through Clarissa's thought process and symbols.  Furthermore, Clarissa's past also brings up a liberal lifestyle quite contrary to her manner in the present form. "Sally went out, picked hollyhocks, dahlias - all sorts of flowers that had never been seen together - cut their heads off, and made them swim on the top of water in bowls.  The effect was extraordinary - coming in to dinner in the sunset (Of course Aunt Helena thought it wicked to treat flowers like that)."  In this, Aunt Hele...