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The fantastic can be a form of escape for men and women suffering from…
The fantastic can be a form of escape for men and women suffering from mental health
For the author
Having suffered from mental health issues such as a bipolar disorder, Virginia, among other authors, added parts of her life and of herself into her story without knowing it.
She writes in her story how when Rosalind becomes sad, shy, angry, or any other emotion, she crashes and tries to find that one thing that brings her back to her safe world (her fantasy world that she created --> brings her comfort)
Woolf can possibly relate to that. In Woolf's case. her world is the fantasy one she creates while writing her stories --> she gives life to her stories which then transports her out of her own world.
Virginia Woolf uses modernism to try and find ways to most accurately represent the experience of being human, of being alive, of having thoughts
Virginia writes this story about a woman being different who creates a world of her own in which she feels safe because it mirrors her own self.
It mirrors her own differences and path
Having mental Health issues, she created her own world by writing stories. That's how she escaped the real world; by jumping in between the lined pages of her fantasy stories.
Different perspective of the sad ending
Woolf was a feminist
Character can be a young woman going through life with her own baggage/difficulties and surpassing those moments by creating her own path, her own world, her own story
She is trapped, but not killed
For the reader
Using fantasy as a metaphor and as a way to show the real world --> fantasy then becomes real
Reading and writing as a way to escape the world you feel trapped in --> a way to create a world you want to be in and feel safe in, rather than the one causing you pain
Transportation into reading a story
Like being physically in it
Living the story
Fantasy being real
For the characters
Ernest kills Lapinova but not Rosalind
Think about Ernest's mental health as well
He used to go along with the made-up world where they were both able to meet in
Something happened along the years (maybe the loss of a family member and his childhood home) where he crashed
Mental health can affect or even break marriages
In the end, as a result to his mental health crashing, it caused Rosalind's safety net to fall into a pit of non existence which resulted in her mental health declining as well
Both are now left not okay
So when both worlds, the real world and the fantasy world come crashing down, what is there left to do? The tool used to cope with your mental health is now "murdered". Now what?
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Rosalind
Rosalind escapes into this made up fantasy/fairytale of rabbit world she created where she can feel safe and reassured. where she can make a sense of the world.
She married a man who "was bold and determined", a ruler; a king. He grew up differently than her - he grew up in a manssion, being rich
She was shy and "her world was a mysterious place" --> having mental health issues
They were completely different
But they created a world together that "nobody save themselves knew existed"
Ernest always twitched his nose for her like a rabbit on purpose so that she can feel sage and dive into that world they created
Then this world came crashing down along the years which affected her world
NOW GO TO ERNEST