Beautiful Passage's Meaning

"And so there began a soundless and exquisite passing to and fro through swing doors of aproned white-capped maids, handmaidens not of necessity, but adepts in a mystery or grand deception..." (Woolf 104).

In this passage Woolf uses diction to create a fantasy world that seems magical. With a wave of her hand Lady Burton summons an army of maids to serve lunch. It seems to be magical and "Not paid for" to the eyes of her guests (104). Even though Richard and Clarissa have a cook, she constantly worries about the menu. Here there seems to be no fuss, no frantic movements. Everything is carefully planned and practiced. Lady Burton has been a pillar of polite society since her birth and has had much experience in the area. The illusion of calm is simply that, an illusion.
The illusion is carried to Lady Burton herself. She seems to be in charge and look down on Hugh. Her personal maid, Miss Bush, resents Hugh and his familiarity with her Lady as he insists that she wears the carnations he brought her. Though she resists at first, she wears them enthusiastically when he completes a letter for her. Her one weakness, her lack of writing ability, forces her to bow to a man she sees as beneath her. Her composure breaks, as does the illusion of control over herself and her household.

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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."

Malcolm X