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and the whole is held together; for whereas in active life she would be netting and separating one thing from the other; she would...

the life of most humans, it is both mediocre and glorious. Woolf watches this small and ordinary creature fly against the pane of...

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....

size." This, of course, refers to the way that women have, traditionally, bolstered the ego of the man in their lives. The man per...

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

Africa is symbolic of delving into the darkest recesses of the human soul. Conrad reveals that when Kurtz came to the Congo he w...

a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...

age: "To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and th...

do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf foll...

can do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf ...

however, the lives of the fictional Frankenstein and the author of the book had many similarities. Both were treated as objects r...

this errand for herself rather than having someone do it for her. A few lines later we read "What a lark! What a plunge!" (Woolf 3...

and they only aggravate the gender issue by putting blinders on people so as to avoid the truth. A relevant phrase in liter...

life, that indicates women had some buried anger and resentment towards men, a sort of position that had to become strong enough t...

opens minds, creating a more rounded person, knowing this process and appreciating whilst it is taking place also adds to the pro...

the stereotypical feminine behavior of Woolfs era. In order to be a journalist, Woolf explains how she had to kill "the Angel" and...

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

she begins her voyage into public identity, she cannot survive the pressure of being brought out and seems uncannily to die of the...

both in regard to the societal events and circumstances in which Virginia Woolf was embroiled and in regard to contemporary societ...

An androgynous individual relies upon social acceptance just the same as other more gender-specific people; when he or she receive...

Two significant examples of writers who broke away from traditional forms well before the end of the millennium are Virginia Woolf...

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

In five pages this paper examines the characters in this Virginia Woolf novel in terms of how they reflect changing social moods o...

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...

stone, but by the relation of human being to human being" (71). She then takes on the voice of an advocate for the rights of wome...

breakdown" (Anonymous Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), 2002; vwoolf.htm). After the serious tragedies is when her writing truly began, ...

In twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...

Complex inner feelings and emotions as conveyed by modernist authors Thomas Mann and Virginia Woolf are compared and contrasted al...