YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf
Essays 61 - 90
point became critical to interpreting the story, and some authors such as Faulkner even began to tell stories from a multitude of ...
The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...
reader is not really sure about the couple until at one point the reader learns that the woman died "hundreds of years ago" and th...
that she is a woman, and the narrator states, "it may have been observed that Orlando hid her manuscripts when interrupted. Next, ...
of feminism: "Feminism articulates political opposition to the subordination of women as women, whether that subordination is ascr...
community in Between the Acts fits with Nancys conceptualization of the interrupt of myth because Woolfs intention was to offer an...
size." This, of course, refers to the way that women have, traditionally, bolstered the ego of the man in their lives. The man per...
In six pages this paper examines how women are portrayed in the works of Gustave Courbet, Charles Darwin, Franz Kafka, and Virgini...
(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...
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...
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...
cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...
who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...
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...
she begins her voyage into public identity, she cannot survive the pressure of being brought out and seems uncannily to die of the...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
"linear narrative and instead went to an interior monologue, or stream of consciousness, technique"(Virginia Woolf, 2003). Woolfs...
uses this seemingly trivial incident to delineate the nature of the relationships of the Ramsey family. Mrs. Ramsey is not so much...
respects ethics. Of course, that is not always apparent on the surface, but like much of his writings, Marx expresses a profound i...
the life of most humans, it is both mediocre and glorious. Woolf watches this small and ordinary creature fly against the pane of...
symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...
the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...
criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...
the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...
"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...