NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Essay Chapter 2 The Mark On The Wall

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Ncert Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope English Essay 2 The Mark On The Wall can be found in this article with its download link. This essay is written by the novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf. Her writings are well known for their psychological angles. This essay is a perfect example of the concept of a ‘stream of consciousness’.

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NCERT Solutions For Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Essay 2


The Mark on The Wall Summary

This is a first-person narrative essay, just like most of the ‘stream-of-consciousness’ essays. Stream of consciousness can be described as “a narrative style that tries to capture a character’s thought process in a realistic way”. This can be considered a kind of interior monologue. 

  • The essay starts with the setting of a living room on a January day. The author is sitting in her living room, smoking and looking at the fire.
  • Suddenly a thought occurred to her that the coals in the fireplace and the cavalcade of knights are somehow alike.
  • The author hence tried to distract herself from this thought by focusing on a black mark on a wall.
  • The ‘stream of consciousness’ was evident in the next part as the author’s mind flows from one topic to another.
  • While she was thinking about knowledge of the time span of modern civilization to gender roles, she tried to get back to the core of her thought by focusing on that black spot on the wall.
  • Suddenly another voice makes her aware that she is not alone in that room and realizes that the black spot on the wall is actually a small snail.

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