ABSTRACT
In 1925, Virginia Woolf published Mrs. Dalloway, which is generally considered one of the greatest and most important modernist texts. When reflecting in a 1923 diary entry about her objectives in the then-future novel, Woolf says that she wants “to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.” Moore had the same objective in The Brook Kerith, but there is a significant difference in the way the two works function to criticize the social system at its most intense. Contemporary authors of biofiction usefully clarify what distinguishes their work, approach, and symbolism from more standard literary forms. There is something too convenient in the way literature signifies. The biofictional symbol is different from the traditional literary symbol in that it is more anchored in fact, more rooted in the historical and the empirical.
