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Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, Three Guineas, Alice…
Virginia Woolf
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Orlando's sexuality change seems to not affect their life at all at first. But after some time they begin to feel different. The skirts they are wearing, and how people treat them now make them feel different and thus act differently.
Gender is an idea put on people in society. Thus when society allows the freedom of gender neutrality, people will be able to be more free as individuals and to then act truly upon their nature and personality.
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When Orlando goes out at night, they being a woman dress as a man. They do this for their safety. Yet they find themselves acting like a man.
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Lily Briscoe sees that human relations are the worst between men and women. Giving the example of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay relationship. The novel gives the understanding that women should be responsible for soothing men’s damaged egos. Lily as a single woman want to break this concept society has put on them, but she in the end caves in.
Lily’s painting represents a struggle against gender convention in the novel. How Charles Tansley’s says that women can’t paint or write. Then both Lily and Woolf prove him wrong.
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Money is the main thing that prevents women from having a room of their own. Thus money is really important. Without money women will continue being second to men.
Women are treated unequally in society and that is why, to society, they have done less impressive works of writing than men.
Woolf uses Judith to show how society discriminates against women. Judith shows to be just as talented as her brother William Shakespeare, yet he gets recognized and praised by their family and society. However Judith’s talents are underestimated and looked down on.
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She uses the room as a symbol for many larger issues, such as privacy, leisure time, and financial independence, each of which is an essential component of the countless inequalities between men and women.
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Peter Walsh's pocket knife is a symbol of sexuality and power. Peter is playing with his pocket knife suggesting that he is not comfortable with his masculinity.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Even though the whole novel is what happens in just one day, the reader gets to see many memories from the past. Along with thoughts from the present.
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Though the film was based off Michael Cunningham, they were both inspired by Virginia Woolf and her novel Mrs. Dalloway.
Stephen Daldry, dir., The Hours
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Alex Zwerdling, “Mrs. Dalloway’s Social System”
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Though the War had transformed the lives of millions of people, Septimus seems to be the only who has been effect the worse.
Septimus is seen as a threat to governing-class values because he insists on remembering the war when everyone else is trying to forget.
Elizabeth Outka, “On Seeing Illness: Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”
Describes how Virginia Woolf’s real life experiences with the war and it illness influenced the context of Mrs. Dalloway
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Woolf's mother died years before after complications from a severe case of flu, and Woolf was infected with the flu in the years after.
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Metaphoric guests in the novel include death, living death, guilt, mental and physical illness, and a temptation to forget.
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Clarissa, Peter, and Septimus all fear death. Septimus is the only one though that actually comes in contact with death. His death however helps Clarissa come to peace with the death around her.
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To The Lighthouse
The painting represents dedication to a feminine artistic vision. The painting and Lily's vision reflects Woolf’s writing. In the way that she shows how her characters come to a balanced and truthful look of the world.
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This reading describes the philosophy in Woolf's works since the beginning. To The Lighthouse and Between the Acts are the most used examples.
Louise Westling, "Virginia Woolf and the Flesh of the World" (excerpt)
Each of Virginia Woolf's novels have a distinct epistemological exploration of that "semi-transparent envelope,"
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Three Guineas
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War motivated Woolf to write this essay-novel, when a man writes to her and asks how society could stop war.
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Woolf says that society in her time is patriarchal and gives suggestions on how this gender inequality can be resolved.
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Wages are a clear proof of the difference between men and women. Women can make a maximum wage of £250, but men don't have this limit.
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Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”
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Orlando
Melanie Micir, "The Sense of Unending: Revisiting Virginia Woolf's Orlando"
This reading described the informal format of the novel Orlando. It is clearly not a simple biography.
Orlando is an “biography” of Woolf's lover, Vita Sackville-West and it is an unfinished aesthetic of queer feminist modernism.
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Through the reading one is able to see further why Woolf chose the times to be in her novel. They are all related to Vita's real life.
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This chapter shows us how Woolf used Orlando to criticize the sexist conventions of English inheritance law.
Orlando become oppressed through out the novel by having to fit into the gender role of the time he is in. They in the end become mature and is able to resist this conformity.
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Sally Potter, dir., Orlando
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