The speaker in this story is Virginia Woolf. She is an activist and a feminist as well as a writer. That tells her story while living during war. Being an activist and a feminist gives her more of a point of view on how women should be more involved in the war.
“To fight against a real enemy, to earn undying honor and honor by shooting total strangers, and to come home with my breast covered with medals and decorations, that was the summit of my hope….It was for this that my whole life so far had been dedicated, my education, training, everything….” (6)
The voice that tells the story. Author and speaker are NOT always the same. An author may tell the story from a different points of view(s). Facts about speaker will help assess his/her …show more content…
last night and the night before that. Here they are again.It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet which may at any moment sting you to death.(1)”
Time and place of the piece; the context that encouraged the writing to happen. What is the larger occasion or environment of ideas and emotions occurring? Is there an immediate occasion or event that is triggering the author’s response.
The intended audience for this article is Englishmen and women. Mostly towards women who were there experiences what she was and were the ones who were prisoners to men. This is also a story that can go towards the people in the activist and feminists movement.
“Unless we can think peace into existence we-not this one body in this one bed but millions of bodies yet to be born will lie in the same darkness and hear the same death rattle over head.”
“We are equally prisoners tonight-the Englishmen in their planes,the Englishwomen in their beds.”(1)
To what group people is it directed; one person, a small group, or a large group; it may be an entity – company or part of …show more content…
Its purpose in order to examine the argument and its logic. Ask, “What does the speaker want the audience to think/do after reading this text?”
The general topic contained in the text is that men already have a war like instinct in them but there women could do something to change this. Woolf is condemning men do to a “subconscious hitlerism in the hearts of men”.
“ We must create more honorable activities for those who try to conquer in themselves their fighting instinct, their subconscious Hitlerism. we must compensate the man for the loss of his gun.”(7)
The general topic, content, and ideas contained in the text. You should be able to state the subject in a few words or a phrase.
The tone of this essay outrage and hope because Virginia Woolf is longing for peace where she lives but there is endless war which she blames on men. She believes woman could do something and help end the war
“To fight against a real enemy, to earn undying honor and honor by shooting total strangers, and to come home with my breast covered with medals and decorations, that was the summit of my hope….It was for this that my whole life so far had been dedicated, my education, training, everything….” (6)
The voice that tells the story. Author and speaker are NOT always the same. An author may tell the story from a different points of view(s). Facts about speaker will help assess his/her …show more content…
last night and the night before that. Here they are again.It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet which may at any moment sting you to death.(1)”
Time and place of the piece; the context that encouraged the writing to happen. What is the larger occasion or environment of ideas and emotions occurring? Is there an immediate occasion or event that is triggering the author’s response.
The intended audience for this article is Englishmen and women. Mostly towards women who were there experiences what she was and were the ones who were prisoners to men. This is also a story that can go towards the people in the activist and feminists movement.
“Unless we can think peace into existence we-not this one body in this one bed but millions of bodies yet to be born will lie in the same darkness and hear the same death rattle over head.”
“We are equally prisoners tonight-the Englishmen in their planes,the Englishwomen in their beds.”(1)
To what group people is it directed; one person, a small group, or a large group; it may be an entity – company or part of …show more content…
Its purpose in order to examine the argument and its logic. Ask, “What does the speaker want the audience to think/do after reading this text?”
The general topic contained in the text is that men already have a war like instinct in them but there women could do something to change this. Woolf is condemning men do to a “subconscious hitlerism in the hearts of men”.
“ We must create more honorable activities for those who try to conquer in themselves their fighting instinct, their subconscious Hitlerism. we must compensate the man for the loss of his gun.”(7)
The general topic, content, and ideas contained in the text. You should be able to state the subject in a few words or a phrase.
The tone of this essay outrage and hope because Virginia Woolf is longing for peace where she lives but there is endless war which she blames on men. She believes woman could do something and help end the war