The Art
The first time I read Mrs. Dalloway, I was actually studying for a class on Faulkner. That said, Woolf’s novel left an impression that has hardly faded over the years.
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William Shakespeare’s fascination with mental illness is readily apparent in his writings. For years, I taught Macbeth to my 9th grade students, and mental illness plays a decidedly prominent role in the story through both Macbeth’s visions and Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking night terrors.
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In addition to being one of only seven authors in history to win both the Nobel and the Pulitzer prizes for literature, Faulkner wrote about mental illness in a time when the subject was even more of a cultural taboo than it is today.
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Bill Walton, an extremely close friend of Ernest Hemingway, called him a classic manic-depressive.
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