A woman’s inferiority towards men remains as a common conviction that Woolf correlates to a female’s decline. The suppression of the female sex permits the belief that the “essentials of a woman’s being” is to “[support, minister,] and [reflect] the figure of man." Most women submit to a male’s dominance as society places them in this conventional position. Thus resulting in one of the main hindrances to a woman’s development— the insistent nature of the existing relations between the two genders. The relegation of women lies in the established notion that “all women are brought up” to believe “that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men” (Mill). The relations between male and female is customary to the time of the Victorian
