One of the main themes of the novel Mrs. Virginia Woolf's Dalloway is the collective loss of confidence of the English people in the state of the British Empire after the First World War. Set in London in June 1923, the novel opens at the end of a world war which lasted only four years but cost more than 100,000 lives in the United Kingdom and permanently altered political boundaries and the world social order of its population. Each of the novel's many characters represents a different aspect of the English citizens' disenchantment with established and presupposed cultural values ​​and worldviews, brought about by the unexpected lack of glory in victory or dignity in the multitudes of the dead and injured. The world that Woolf creates in Mrs. Dalloway is both a historical reflection and a social commentary, describing how the atrocities of war reverberate through the many layers of experience and separation to become deeply embedded in the collective social consciousness of the country. Outwardly, Clarissa Dalloway is an ideal image of the 19th century English social elite, part of an ever-diminishing upper class whose affluent lifestyle was affected in both subtle and terrible ways by the raging war apart from their superfluous and neat existence. Clarissa's world revolves around parties, meaningless errands, social visits, and an endless array of little things that basically make no sense, yet are Clarissa's only way to avoid emotional illness and recover. disconnect from the society in which it exists. Clarissa's experience of post-war England, politically humiliated and economically devastated, resonates deeply in her subconscious and emotional identity, although it seems nowhere to be found in her much affected publication...... middle of diary ...... young men and women from Europe. . As Winston Churchill observed in a retrospective on the First World War: “Cruel disillusionment was imminent… All looked forward to a great expansion, and there was before them only a strong contraction; a contraction of the material conditions of the masses” (Churchill, 13). Ms. Dalloway's characters compose a devastatingly specific narrative about human isolation and suffering in a postwar climate, and the means by which they come to terms with vast and unprecedented cultural disenchantment. Works Cited1. Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway London: Harcourt, Inc, 1925. Print.2. Shakespeare, William. . Churchill, Winston S. The Aftermath - being a continuation of the world crisis Macmillan, London., 1944