Leonard Woolf

Virginia Woolf 's “Professions for Women” is a speech that she wrote for an audience of women sharing her personal experiences in becoming a successful author. Written in the 1930’s, women entering the workforce was an particularly taboo subject. In a profession where monumental success is already problematic, factoring in being a woman of a patriarchal society makes it virtually impossible. Throughout the entirety of the speech, there are various stylistic writing elements she uses to convey…

as unconscious motives, oedipus complex, and the stream of consciousness, to give us greater insight into her own ways of thinking, so that we can be more tolerant of those with mental illness. Throughout the novel it becomes abundantly clear that Woolf has unconsciously made Mrs. and Mr. Ramsay her parents. Upon beginning the novel we are led to believe that Mrs. Ramsay is the protagonist of the story, but come part two we are given some terrible news,…

of the matrimonial tide” (Showalter 38). Both characters challenge their male counterparts, seek independence and autonomy, and cannot be fulfilled by marriage and motherhood. Through the narratives of Edna Ponteiller and Lily Briscoe, Chopin and Woolf accentuate the traits of the New Woman.…

Women had not been given the opportunity to express what they were thinking nor the time to learn because their roles in society were to cook, clean, and take care of the children. Virginia Woolf makes an interesting statement in “A Rooms of One 's Own” which is, “Women must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Women were not important to society because of gender inequality and as a result, women were silenced. The “room” in a literal perspective means that women…

Armstrong, Nancy. How Novels Think: the Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900. Columbia University Press, 2006 This book discusses the thematic structure of how an individual is created within a novel. In this work, the critic is making the argument that, historically, novels and individuals are one in the same. According to Armstrong, the character must first find a frustration with their position in the social order, and then work to change it. How Novels Think also reveals how the new…

Treatment of women in society shashi Desponde’s selected short stories A Liberated Woman and It Was the Nightingale Shashi Desponde , an Indian woman writer in, was born in a small town of Dharward in 1938. Her father, the famous kannada playwright, was described as ‘the Bernard Shaw of the ‘Kannada theatre’ .She acquired an M.A. in English from Mysore University. She married Dr. Desponde, A Neuro-pathologist in 1962 and visited England in 1969. Inspired by this visit, she published an account…

In her novel, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf explores the thematic implications of time's continuous procession foreword. Woolf uses images of the sea as a symbolic depiction of the passage of time in relation to human lives. This pattern of images suggests that time takes on a number of different forms. Likes the waves, times sometimes appears repetitive and nearly motionless, but it also has a violent and entropic nature that calls attention to the impermanence of human life by threatening…

Eternal Love To the Lighthouse, written by Virginia Woolf, is a novel about the effect relationships have on people’s lives. The first part of the novel The Window is about the Ramsay family and their guests’ time during a 12-hour span period at a summerhouse. All of them have the basic story of considering visiting the lighthouse the next day, but each character has a sub-plot. In the second part of the novel Time Passes, about ten years have gone by. Mrs. Ramsay has passed away, and the rest…

the other hand, in the George Washington painting the structure and craft consists of Washington standing with his arm extended which shows he is about to speak and holding a sword. While, in the Dinner Party the structure and craft of the Virginal Woolf plate consists of a blooming flower with seeds in the center and the center seems to be bursting out from the petals. Furthermore, the structure and craft in the Anna Van Schurman plate consists of a butterfly with shades of…

While both Woolf and Petrunkevitch both focus on an insect, Woolf explains that death is an inevitable part to life and also shows how beautiful the struggle for life is by the dynamic point of view and artistic tone she used. Woolf’s view on the moth changes from hopeful and energetic to insignificant and helplessness by the essays end. Woolf starts her essay by describing the energy outside her window as “pleasant morning… earth gleamed with moisture.” Woolf then transfers the energy of the…