"Stream of consciousness" is a technique, used by modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, that is supposed to authentically document the mental process or capture the "atmosphere of the mind". This technique is used to explore the inner reality or psychic being of characters. Virginia Woolf uses this technique in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. For Woolf “life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope that surrounds us from the beginning of consciousness to the end”. As a writer she wanted to "record the atoms as they fall upon the mind... trace a pattern, however disjointed and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident marks upon that consciousness." Woolf's writing of Mrs. Dalloway is a departure from the contemporary form that she reviled for not doing justice to life and character. What it seems to advocate is a representation of the life of the mind, in all its vagaries, idiosyncrasies and indeterminacies, in all its complexity and fullness. He emphasized the need to move from the public to the private, from the social to the introspective, from the political to the individual. (The politics and public that enter his writings only happen through the individual psyche). Woolf's real subject in the text is consciousness, awareness, action and reaction, what we remember, say and keep hidden, the distance between the inside and the outside, how very differently we appear to ourselves and to others. What she wants is what E.M. Foster told her in praise of Jacob's Room, "to get deeper into the soul." Woolf celebrated the portrayal of the “inner life” and attempted to capture the limitless flow of thought in lucid prose; and so he believed that the non-...... middle of the paper ...and peering into the text, the internal thoughts of the conscience do not influence the actions of the characters, the conscience never intervenes with the external actions. Furthermore, despite the multiple focalization (i.e. the insight into the minds of the other characters, their fears, insecurities, anxieties and euphoria) Woolf never privileges any particular perspective or impression over the other; for example: Clarissa and Miss Kilman could become critical of each other, which doesn't seem to happen. We can therefore see that the concern of the text is the workings of consciousness, rather than what consciousness can change or push one to do. Through stream of consciousness Woolf offers readers multiple perspectives without making precise statements, escaping commitment to any class or section, without constructing any kind of hierarchies.