Virginia

Virginia Woolf’s The New Dress has many themes and literary devices. The story shows the style of stream of consciousness that Woolf uses. Virginia Woolf’s writing style is creative because many people do not use it in today’s writing. Woolf’s writing style of stream of consciousness uses Mabel’s thoughts and events that happened. Woolf decided to write in a stream of consciousness style, and her choice of writing let her use flashbacks as a literary device. She was able to use flashbacks and…

Comedy and tragedy are often two sides of the same coin, black and white in nature, but in the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf this nature becomes a messy storm of whether we’re supposed to laugh, cry, or both. When we started reading this play, I had no doubt in my mind that it was a comedy. The conversations between George and Martha were sometimes cruel, but I saw it as banter that’s often seen in long-term relationships. However, the class reacted in quite a different way from me, they…

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…

One of the most influence cases that certainly changed the future for ever would be the Loving v. Virginia 1969 case. A case that involved both an African American women named Mildred Jeter and a white male named Richard loving. They were both residents of Virginia when they decided to marry each other in the District of Columbia. The loving’s were later convicted for violating the states antimiscegention statue (inter-racial marriages were not allowed). They were sentenced to one year in prison…

Virginia Woolf’s essay “Death of the Moth” describes her encounter with a moth as it is trying to fly frantically to run away from her windowpane before it dies. At first, Woolf wants to help the moth to escape her windowpane as she is watching it struggle but, as she goes to do so, she realizes that the moth is going through the same struggle that all living species go through while trying to escape death. She realizes that, this is part of every creatures’ life. When Woolf witnessed the moth’s…

On April 17, 2007, a horrific incident occurred at Virginia Tech. It all began when a call was made early in the morning about a shooting incident that occurred in the dorm rooms. There were two students that were shoot and killed that morning. The first responders to the scene believed they had a suspect who happened to be the boyfriend of one of the deceased individuals found murdered. The campus police believed it to be an isolated incident which had ended as soon as it had begun. To their…

“The deadliest school shooting in U.S. history took place April 16th, 2007, when a gun man killed 32 people before killing himself at Virginia Tech, a public University in Blacksburg, Virginia.” (http://www.history.com/topics/columbine-high-school-shootings) On top of the 32 deaths that happened on this horrific day in our history, 17 people were wounded but survived. 30 of the deaths were students and 5 were faculty members of the university. Twenty-three year old Seung Hui Cho was…

On April 16, 2007 a student at Virginia Tech murdered and injured a large number of fellow students and faculty. Prior to the incident, he had displayed signs of violent thoughts and behavior to his instructors. As a younger child, he had also been troubled. However, at that age, he had received psychiatric help due to his parents’ involvement (Virginia Tech Review Panel). It is possible that if he had received help as an adult, this crisis could have been avoided. Unfortunately, the student’s…

In Edward Albee’s play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, we witness an intoxicated and scathing bout of repressed emotions between four unique characters. Albee debuted his play on Broadway in 1962 to much critical acclaim (bio.com). It was later made into a motion picture, which also received many accolades (bio.com). This dramatic piece has endured to this day as a masterful work on the exploration of bitter resentment and emotional violence within a disintegrating marriage. All four…

holds our dreams. The present cannot be successfully lived without a healthy balance of the past and the future. Many times, though, we get caught up in either in the choices of yesterday or in the worries of tomorrows. In her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf shows that living life without a good balance of past and future in the present brings pain through Peter Walsh 's imaginative life, Clarissa Dalloway’s constant disappointment, and Septimus Smith 's suicide. Peter Walsh appears to have…