Virginia Woolf Parallel Structure

During the 1920s, Britain was a class-based society and relied heavily on the patriarchal system. In 1929, a feminist writer named, Virginia Woolf, wrote an essay about her meals she at a men’s college and at a women’s college. Woolf talks about the difference in food quality between the two colleges. During this time period, men were able to have many luxuries, while women had to work hard for items that were a necessity. Virginia Woolf is able to show the vast differences and inequality of men and women by having good stylistics, syntax, and structure. Woolf’s eloquent essay is particularly effective because it shows the discrepancies between the treatment between men and women scholars by comparing the food they are served. Virginia Woolf appeals to her audience by using food because she is aware that men would be able to grasp what she is trying to convey by appealing to what they like. Woolf uses food as a way to show the discrepancy between the men and women’s colleges in an amusing way. In her first paragraph about the men’s college, she uses parallel structure, “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” Using parallel structure emphasizes how much men don’t need to worry …show more content…
In her first paragraph, she used many adjectives in order to describe the lavish food she was served. She uses adjectives such as “whitest cream” and “sharp and the sweet,’ to show her extravagant types of food she getting. She also uses a simile, “brown spots like spots on the flanks of a doe.” Woolf uses a simile in order to show how elegant her food was, showing that the men had has more money to flaunt and use. In her second paragraph, she hardly used descriptive adjectives because women didn’t have the money to spend it on such materialistic things. Through her use of stylitics and similes, she is able to show the inequality between men and