Analysis Of Silent Sky By Virginia Woolf

Whether we walk down the street or go shopping, we can easily observe how women are treated in society and compare it to the past. In the present, there has been a lot of progress from the past till now, women are given equal opportunities and equal rights, but in the olden days this wasn't always the case, back then society did not support women . Men were opposed to women having equal opportunities like men, they felt the need that women should be inferior to men.Without the support of society, women had to struggle and fight to achieve her dreams.The role of women struggling for fair and equal opportunities helps bring justice to feminism in society. In a play called “Silent Sky” written by Lauren …show more content…
Virginia Woolf was wondering If Shakespeare did have a sister would she live up to his legacy? In many ways the author disagrees believing that women did not have opportunities given back to them, though they worked hard and had the same capabilities a men, society has limited women to fulfill their passion and dreams, “She had no chance of learning grammar and logic , let alone of reading Horace and Virgil.h picked up a book now and then..But then her parents came and told her to mend her stockings”(page 3, paragraph 5).If Shakespeare did have a sister and she was capable of being like her brother, society would not give her a chance to live up to her brother's legacy limiting resources and …show more content…
Friedrich Wieck , Clara’s father, recognized her talent for music and did the best to encourage her career but her father did not give in to her regular education. Wieck helped Clara a lot, she was a father in ability, but a manager when it comes to learning music”Friedrich sometimes behaved cruelly towards her, but Clara considered his strictness a blessing because it made her a more solid musician”. Another man who greatly impacted her life was Robert Schuman, her love of her life. Robert Schuman was too a composer and had the same love for music, but according to Clara’s father “Wieck loathed the idea of Clara, the supreme achievement of his life, marrying someone who he considered beneath her”(page 2, para 7). Not according to her father’s wishes she later got married to Robert and raised up a family. Clara had a hard time after she got married,their relationship seemed to be confining she had ten children, soon later Robert suffered from mental illness which led to suicide, Though Clara had so much to deal with in her life and the pain she went through, she still continued to achieve her dreams and pursue her career by composing music, ignoring the fact society has negatively impacted