Virginia Woolf

The Latin-derived term horror vacui translates to “fear of emptiness.” Within literature, the utilization of horror vacui elucidates the human desire to maintain a grasp on the material world in times of adversity or turbulence. In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, this fear of existential emptiness is manifested into the characters’ own materialist strategies to cope with it. Whether it be through the accumulation of…

It’s common for readers and critics of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography to immediately categorize her novel as a loose interpretation of a biography. In fact, analyzers and historians have proved the connections between her novel’s characters, as well as, its events. , The parallelism even stated in the title as a biography. However, it is worth arguing that writing a holiday biography was neither Woolf’s first nor only intention. A thorough analysis presents a theme of sexual ambiguity to…

Cited Bloom, Harold. Virginia Woolf. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. Print. Bloom’s book is published by a reputable publisher. In the book Bloom offers many critical views of the writings of Virginia Woolf. In the book there is full-length essays by expert literary critics. There is a chronology biography of her life which is easy to read and understand.This will prove to be helpful for both the essay and presentation. Reid, Panthea. Art And Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf. New York:…

Standing Here Ironing in My New Dress As a single parent children have different meaning for standing when it comes to being discipline by their parents. To us standing is shrieking up to be heard for the children they shriek down to heard. What I’m trying to say is if we do not take control in our children’s life style how are we to know when they or shrieking up or down. Sometimes one have to take the time out and explain to your children why these situation occurs even if it is bad on our…

The Modernism period took place in the early twentieth century. During this period, an individual experienced subjective and existential conditions that impacted their human culture and politics. Before this time, the world operated on a rational system, that was governed by law and stood as a representation of reality. When this period came into play, questioning or rejection of tradition was common and life focused on prioritizing individualism, freedom, and formal equality. Life’s theory was…

certain situations. On the other hand, in certain situations limitations cannot be removed, which was proved in Virginia Woolf’s book excerpt “In search of a Room of One’s Own” because it broke past the fictional predisposition of how women were idealized in the 16th century by identifying the truth behind the inequality women faced, which led to their lack of expression in society. Woolf highlights the fact that there were no stories or books written by women in the 1600s, and that even the…

prompted forlornness. Pioneer authors were all the more intensely aware of the objectivity of their environment. As a pioneer author, Virginia Woolf was a complex trailblazer related with the continuous flow procedure. This exploration paper will concentrate on the renowned current written work system named as the Stream of Consciousness strategy, utilized as a part of Virginia…

Trauma is a world-wide known phenomenon that people have to live with all their lives. While trauma is mostly seen in the lives of victims of domestic violence or war veterans, it can take any shape and any level of intensity. In Virginia Woolf’s piece, Mrs. Dalloway and Wilfred Owen’s, “Dulce et Decorum Est” trauma is a consistent notion that is prominent in the characters’ lives. In Woolf’s piece, Septimus Smith is a World War I veteran who suffers from obvious trauma in the form of…

Afraid of Virginia Woolf was presented as a movie that received an “exemption”, even though the screenplay was edited involving the removal of the phrase “screw you”, and the retention of phrases such as “hump the hostess”, and numerous “God damn” phrases in Elizabeth Taylors’ character dialogue for Virginia Woolf. (Nichols, 1966) As stated beforehand, the economic pressures from foreign movies pushed big studios, like Warner Bros to create movies like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. In the…

With the contrast that happens between the characters of the novel, Virginia Woolf utilizes the consciousness of her characters to be the narrator in the novel “Mrs. Dalloway”. To have a person’s inner thoughts be the narrator it gives the novel an ability to back and forth from a person’s mind that is comprehending their thoughts, emotions, and physical reaction to an event that is happening while still mentioning the details of the outside world events. By doing so it was deemed fit as a work…