Big Ben

“…the direct downright sound of Big Ben striking the half-hour. (The leaden circles dissolved in the

air.)” (Woolf 72).

Here is yet another mention of the importance in irrevocability of time. Woolf again uses the “leaden circle dissolved in the air” line to show the hour falling upon all of London. Big Ben is large clock in London which strikes the hour and half hour (very loudly) for all of London to hear. It is located in the Houses of Parliament, in Westminster.

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