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Androgyny and Isolation in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

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

Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, and Early Feminism

(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...

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...

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...

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 ...

Short Story on Everyday Decisions

not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...

The Waves by Virginia Woolf and the Nature of Individual Identity

that takes individual characteristics far from their origin but then allows them to flow back. At the same time, that identity fus...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Postmodernism

symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...

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....

Cinema and Aristotelian Considerations

In a paper consisting of five pages the cinematic adaptations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Much Ado About Nothing, and Sween...

Codependency and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Iin seven pages this paper examines the codependent relationship between the Ramsays in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Ther...

Bernard's Importance to The Waves by Virginia Woolf

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...

Edward Albee's Play Tiny Alice and Its Critical Reception

plot, he said that he could not possibly relate what went on during the three-hour production (Kolin and Davis 19). Author Philip ...

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...

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. ...

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...

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Voice as a Literary Device

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...

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...

Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, and Characters 'Under the English Queen Mother's Umbrella

This discussion topic focuses on Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf and consists of nine pages. Eight sources are cited in the bibli...

'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf and Its Modernist and Gender Implications

In six pages this paper examines the gender and modernist implications of this work by Virginia Woolf. Three sources are cited in...

Married Couples in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the married couples George and Martha, Nick and Honey in this analysis of Who's Af...

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...

Short Story Mimetics and Verisimilitude

By the time we reach mid story, and the speech of Stella-Rondo, we have suspended disbelief, as we might in good theater, and bel...

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...