A Room Of Judith's Life

Reading the heartbreaking story of William Shakespeare’s would-be sister, Judith, in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, was equal parts intriguing and enlightening. Despite the fact that Judith did not actually exist, her situation is one that jumped directly off of the pages, and will no doubt immerse any reader into the history of women’s rights. Even today, her trials will have the ability to resonate with any woman who feels as if her intelligence and skills have been written off as inferior for no reason other than that she is a woman. Although the modern western woman does not necessarily suffer the same discriminations as Judith, overwhelming empathy will burst forth from their hearts as they read about her dealing with the preconceived notions of how a woman should act in proper society. In this essay, the depressing circumstances surrounding Judith’s life can serve no other purpose than to pave the way for a fate representative of the internalized suffering that she faced. Throughout Judith’s life, she lived, by force, under the dark shadow of her successful brother, and consistently, she was denied equal opportunities on the trivial basis of being …show more content…
It is creative in telling the tale of Judith Shakespeare, an oppressed woman in the sixteenth-century whose remarkable gift for writing goes unnoticed on account of her femininity. Therefore, it is impossible for shock to overcome anyone at the idea that a woman, who possessed the same abilities as any male writer, would be overwrought with the grief of inadequacy. The decision for her to take her own life was not conjured up overnight, it grew with the loss of her voice, leaving her with the realization that she was to live a life devoid of any meaning. Rather than continuing in the suffering, she freed herself the only way that she knew how to do so. Her death was