Analysis Of Woolf´s A Room Of One's Own

Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”
Woolf discusses the injustices that women have suffered in the past. She starts out by discussing the notion that if Shakespeare had had a sister, who shared his genius, she would have been unable to flourish because she would not have been sent to school to hone her craft; not to mention theater at that time was considered a man’s craft, so she would have been unable to even work in her preferred field. Next, she talks about the first time she read about two women liking each other which was different from the usual way where women were mentioned only in relation to the men. This, she states, causes the literature to suffer. Finally, she talks about the use of androgyny regarding the mind. She states that it is important to use both the masculine and feminine aspects of the mind while writing. De Beauvior’s “the Second Sex” de Beauvior focuses on the myths surrounding women and how these myths attempt to represent a woman in totality but fails. She states that the myth of women is important for the ruling caste because it justifies things like male privilege. One of the myths she discusses is the myth that women are mysterious. “The other,” in this case the …show more content…
It is also important to note that she explicitly states that this paper is about women writers and their importance so the lack of male importance is not because she is being petty or ignorant, but because “woman must write woman. And man, man” (1944). She starts by discussing the “Old Woman,” which does not relate to her age, but rather women who are fearful of writing, and their power, because men have been in control for so long and have created boundaries, in their writing of women, that has caused women to see themselves differently than they should. It is important for women to write about themselves so that the “New Woman” can emerge and the truth of women be