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Gender Inequality in 'The New Dress' by Virginia Woolf

that women are made to believe their worth is based solely upon their fashion sense. That women have been forced to prove their w...

Virginia Woolf, War, the Women's Movement, and Rhetoric

As Burke notes for the process in general, Woolfs work exemplifies the fact that the symbolic means of rhetoric is directly associ...

Doubles in the Work of Woolf and Conrad

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

Feminist Message in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

"linear narrative and instead went to an interior monologue, or stream of consciousness, technique"(Virginia Woolf, 2003). Woolfs...

Creative Depiction of Women

In six pages this paper examines how women are portrayed in the works of Gustave Courbet, Charles Darwin, Franz Kafka, and Virgini...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and its Literary Contribution

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

Moths, Life, and Death

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

'The Death of the Moth' by Virginia Woolf

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....

Illusion and Truth in the Plays of Henrik Ibsen

that she has thoughts and ideas that are not necessarily normal for a simple woman. She has a fire, and that fire is the element o...

Analysis of an Illuminating Moment in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

uses this seemingly trivial incident to delineate the nature of the relationships of the Ramsey family. Mrs. Ramsey is not so much...

Summary and Resources on Virginia Woolf

to dehumanize both the invader and the invaded to the extent that the value of human life is lost(Phillips 123). Phillips ...

Virginia Woolf and E.B. White: Essays

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

An Analysis of “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf

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

The Concept of Time in Two Novels

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

The Concept of Time in Woolf and Wilde

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

Various Quotations and their Meaning

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf and Community

chapters, Woolf presents scenes of varying lengths, which are separated by a blank space, with each scene offering a fragmentary v...

Realization of Two Women Characters in Mrs. Dalloway

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...

The Female Influence on British Literature

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

True Love and Phenomenal Women

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

Opening Section of Part III in Toni Morrison's Beloved Analyzed

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

'Professions for Women' by Virginia Woolf

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

Literature and Reality

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

Modernist Themes in 'Death in Venice' and 'Mrs. Dalloway' Compared

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

Mann, Gide, Kafka, Woolf, and Modernism

It was realistic, but the writing was complicated and required the reader to become intimately involved with the subject matter. ...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot

(Longman, 2001). Others, however, bravely forged away from tradition and convention. Longman (2001, PG) notes:...

Comparative Analysis of Protagonists in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Mrs. Dalloway, and A Room with a View

young woman who is constrained in her behaviour and her attitudes by social and family ties, but who is eventually able to break f...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Symbolic Representations

nurturing and a woman of some magical connection to the earth it would seem. When seen in this perspective we can note the influen...

Modernity in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Realism issues and the modernity concept are examined in this analysis of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf consisting of five p...

Nineteenth Century Prejudices and Obstacles Against Women in the Workplace

In five pages this paper discusses the formidable obstacles that have been in place preventing women from achieving professional e...