YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Author Virginia Woolf
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breakdown" (Anonymous Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), 2002; vwoolf.htm). After the serious tragedies is when her writing truly began, ...
The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...
that women are made to believe their worth is based solely upon their fashion sense. That women have been forced to prove their w...
Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...
death in The Great War. Unlike classical protagonists, Jacob exists not in the center of the action but always on the periphery (...
and the whole is held together; for whereas in active life she would be netting and separating one thing from the other; she would...
to bother the moth any. She reflects on how she watches a particular moth and how he seems quite happy and content with his life....
within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence, a perpetual assertion that speaks volumes about the inherent fortit...
that takes individual characteristics far from their origin but then allows them to flow back. At the same time, that identity fus...
the genius of Woolf. The womans thoughts, though they seem to be idle ramblings, are quite symbolic of Woolfes views on the direct...
an intimate conversation among feminine equals. Men are excluded" (Marcus 79). She has, in essence, constructed an alternate fem...
been quoted as saying, "Probably nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summers in Cornwall...to hear the ...
and they only aggravate the gender issue by putting blinders on people so as to avoid the truth. A relevant phrase in liter...
This is reflected in Emmas refusal to allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a ...
In six pages this paper examines the gender and modernist implications of this work by Virginia Woolf. Three sources are cited in...
nurturing and a woman of some magical connection to the earth it would seem. When seen in this perspective we can note the influen...
In sixteen pages this paper discusses how duality and death are represented in the characterizations of Septimus Smith and Clariss...
Iin seven pages this paper examines the codependent relationship between the Ramsays in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Ther...
point: "Thus my character is in part made of the stimulus which other people provide, and is not mine, as yours are" (267). It s...
different ways. While both couples symbolize the bonds of matrimony in one way or another, it is not actually the marriage, in an...
In six pages this paper discusses how Woolf's education and high social status influenced her views regarding working class women ...
I had two cats that had already voiced their opinion on the matter. No Dogs allowed was the agreement. And, Im certain that they f...
satisfying sexual or intimate relationship because of it. She essentially lived a life wherein she was torn between the desire to ...
on what his wife has written reveal details of his opinion regarding her. While granted Gilbert loved his wife, his attitude towar...
In five pages gender and how it influences relationships are examined within the context of these literary works. Four sources ar...
. . . for the perceived immorality of their personal lives" (McCoy & Harlan, 254). In addition to being extremely unconventional s...
In fifteen pages this paper examines how the worth of Sigmund Freud's theories can be measured in these works by Virginia Woolf. ...
In five pages this paper examines how male and female relationships are portrayed in a comparative analysis of these two literary ...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
based on their age, "And that is being young" he thinks as he passes them (106). This begins a train of thoughts that lasts throu...