A Room Providing Freedom?
A woman is given limited freedom. Something as simple as a room could give her a sense of liberty. In Virginia Woolf's article, she claims that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf suggests that having a room literally allows women to have their own space to write, but figuratively traps them in their own thoughts due to a lack of freedom. In the works of Jamaica Kincaid, Virginia Woolf, and Alice Walker, the female figures have shown how their own thoughts, reflection, and creativity could be used as a sense of freedom.
In the short story, "Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid, the writer shows how a girl is misguided by an older adult. The adult in the story says," On Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming" (Kincaid 1340). Comparisons are being used to get her to act in a "mature" way. In the text “mature” is used as a term to describe how a lady should properly act to …show more content…
Woolf doesn't believe that a woman has shown who she is if she hasn't yet written anything to express herself. A woman could express herself based on the experiences you have been through. The fiction in a figurative sense forces her to think about her past. " But this freedom is only a beginning: the room is your own, but it is still bare. It has to be furnished” (Woolf 247), it is shown that a room represents property. It allows you to reflect about who you truly are and it shows that its only yours. Freedom isn't something common for women, so the freedom given within this room allows them to think and build up the "furniture" which is the fiction in writing, becoming an author
A woman is given limited freedom. Something as simple as a room could give her a sense of liberty. In Virginia Woolf's article, she claims that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf suggests that having a room literally allows women to have their own space to write, but figuratively traps them in their own thoughts due to a lack of freedom. In the works of Jamaica Kincaid, Virginia Woolf, and Alice Walker, the female figures have shown how their own thoughts, reflection, and creativity could be used as a sense of freedom.
In the short story, "Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid, the writer shows how a girl is misguided by an older adult. The adult in the story says," On Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming" (Kincaid 1340). Comparisons are being used to get her to act in a "mature" way. In the text “mature” is used as a term to describe how a lady should properly act to …show more content…
Woolf doesn't believe that a woman has shown who she is if she hasn't yet written anything to express herself. A woman could express herself based on the experiences you have been through. The fiction in a figurative sense forces her to think about her past. " But this freedom is only a beginning: the room is your own, but it is still bare. It has to be furnished” (Woolf 247), it is shown that a room represents property. It allows you to reflect about who you truly are and it shows that its only yours. Freedom isn't something common for women, so the freedom given within this room allows them to think and build up the "furniture" which is the fiction in writing, becoming an author