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Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...
that they tend to destroy themselves from within. This inner destruction of the community toward one another is also symbolic of ...
which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...
and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...
on love, but rather an arrangement. This book sheds light on the cruelty of arranged marriages, but things get worse. It is not me...
This paper examines Virginia Woolf's feminist ideology in her various novels and essays. The author contends that Woolf believed ...
Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel is the focus of attention here. Gender is discussed in this context. Woolf seems to claim that gende...
are locked out of the creative heart of society is addressed quite literally by Woolf in her first chapter. The narrator is medita...
Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...
This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...
In four pages this essay analyzes the short story by Ernest Hemingway with an emphasis upon symbolism includiing that represented ...
In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....
in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...
need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...
satisfying sexual or intimate relationship because of it. She essentially lived a life wherein she was torn between the desire to ...
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...
been quoted as saying, "Probably nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summers in Cornwall...to hear the ...
increased recognition and familiarity for the strangeness to be lost....
be possible to establish what is absolute truth, and that the only way in which she can proceed with her exploration into women an...
narrative practice. Woolfs essay "Modern Fiction" remains one of the main stays when describing writing using the modernist approa...
to resurrect and preserve (Gordon 4). Woolf, a manic-depressive, found herself constantly searching for approval...Battling with a...
"what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her, the fat lady in the cab . . . Did it matter that she must inevitably cease c...
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 ...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...
In 5 page this paper defines modernism and then critically applies the concept to T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' and 'Tradition an...
This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...
In a paper consisting of 7 pages social class as it is represented in the intellectualism of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the femini...
that she is a woman, and the narrator states, "it may have been observed that Orlando hid her manuscripts when interrupted. Next, ...
In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...