Virginia Woolf Influences

Virginia Woolf was born in 1882. Adeline Virginia Woolf was bestowed with rational liberal thinking parents. She studied Greek, Latin and German till college level. It was an era wherein, women writers had started to write novels but even in English literature, the authority still lied in the hands of men and the genre of novel was not given adequate consideration. For instance Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that a woman’ education should incorporate the emotion of love and tenderness for others; they should possess modesty and their roles should be restricted to domestic spheres and chores. Woolf is considered as a crucial modern writer of 20th century. Her famous works are Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own. Her first novel was The Voyage Out which was published in 1995. Virginia’s life was surrounded with tragedies from quite an early age. When Virginia was 13 years of age, her mother died and after two years of that incident, her half sister too was consumed by death. This milestone in her life is usually looked backward for her first nervous breakdown. Later, Woolf was over taken by bipolar disorder and remained in depression due to World War II and the destruction that was caused due to its consequences. She took her life at the age of 59 by drowning in a river. Her illness was taking a toll on her and she believed it …show more content…
The resounding of Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) is starkly visible in scene wherein Mrs Dalloway chooses to occupy a room of her own, segregated from her husband, emphasizing more upon her individual identity than that which has been given to her due to her marital status. The text touches upon various themes such as modernism, insanity, feminism, realism, war etc. The plot in this text does not move in linear progression but keeps the past and present loosely tied together in a complex manner without clear cut distinction between the