In paragraph five, Woolf makes the argument that being a gifted woman of genius in the 16th Century would have been torturous. Woolf argues that it would be so out of the ordinary due to society's restraints, the endless distractions, and the massive amounts of discouragement experienced by women of that time. Woolf's argument is convincing because she bases it on truths: women lacked female role models, lacked education, lacked economic opportunities. This makes it impossible for the argument to be accepted and valued as a reality. One needs to look to a history book to find Woolf's evidence and find it factual.
