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- - - - A Room Of One’s Own: The patriarchal society, as revealed in the novel, does not allow women to explore their individuality and independence. The examples Woolf uses are Judith Shakespeare and the narrator who is not allowed into the library. Both crave independence and have the tools necessary to be great writers yet it is the men in their life and around them that pose a challenge.
      - In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Walker explains how all women were spiritually and artistically oppressed, but black women experienced worse suppression than white women. Woolf states in A Room Of One’s Own that if a woman were to be financially independent with her own space she may be a successful literature artist. However, she is implicit to the fact that it is not as easy for black women to gain these freedoms.
  - - - Three Guineas: Woolf’s fierce tone throughout the novel allows readers to see a passionate, aggressive, feminist side to her. Additionally, her analytical stance and her statistics provided made Three Guineas a more non-fictional and significant text to the feminist movement.
        
        The Sense of Unending: Revisiting Virginia Woolf's Orlando: Micir explores the effectiveness of biographies like Orlando. Biographies allow women to tell their stories according to them as a force of resistance against the common exclusion of women in literature. The biography Orlando, although inspired from satire, was one of Woolf’s work’s that greatly contributed to and supported feminist and queer movements.
  - - - Orlando: Sexuality is represented as something fluid and casual in the novel. Orlando's gender and sexuality is not one thing, it is all things at once. Orlando as a character is a reflection of how Woolf and Vita Sackville West presumably viewed the role of gender in one's life: insignificant.
      - Orlando (film): Orlando's transition from male to female is beautifully illustrated. When she awakens she is unfazed by the fact that her biological sex changed in her sleep. The way the director chose to approach the sex change was similar to the novel in that they both approach gender and sex as something fluid and nonchalant. Furthermore, the film presents Orlando as both feminine and masculine with a mixture of features from both as seen in the image
- - - - To The Lighthouse: The deaths of Prue, Andrew, and Mrs. Ramsay reveal how suddenly things can happen in life. Their deaths occur in the “Time Passes” section of the novel which covers the span of ten years in only a few pages, and in those ten years Woolf covers many things that happened. This leaves readers with questions like how Mrs. Ramsay’s death occurred.
        
        The Hours: Though the stories take place in three different decades they are all connected through loss and death. Richard and Virginia Woolf’s suicides although taking place different years are connected as Richard is a representation of Woolf and her ongoing battles with illness.
        
        “On Seeing Illness: Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: The plague and the 50-100 million deaths that came along with it affected how writers viewed art and approached fiction and literary works. Outka analyzes how Woolf portrayed herself post-influenza through Clarissa. She has noticeably changed as revealed in the first few pages. Ultimately, both Clarissa and Woolf, who possess the same characteristics, have been so close to death and as a result live out their lives anxiously.
  - - - Orlando: The purpose of how fast time moves in Orlando is insignificant to her development as a person coming into her own and discovering her true self. She defies aging and is seen as immortal.
      - Orlando (film): Orlando learns to adapt and change who she is throughout living in different centuries. Her slow aging juxtaposes the passing of centuries. Both the novel and film effectively portray Orlando's success as both a male and female, further proving the irrelevancy of gender (and or) sex
- - - - Three Guineas: ”between the devil and the deep sea” (Woolf, 74)
        Creates the image that women in society during this time dealt with a double edged sword. Whether they chose to contribute to patriarchal society by pursuing a career or remaining home catering to the children and household, women would continue living in a world where their contributions are not recognized and they are treated inferiorly.
  - - - In Search of Our Mothers Gardens: “Gardens” metaphorically represents something someone tends to. In the case of the text the “gardens” are what the author's African American female relatives tended to, whether it was their art or spirituality. “In search” means exploring or uncovering. So, the title In Search of Our Mothers Gardens translates to the exploration and search of the art and spirituality of our African American women.