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Women's Roles As Seen by Woolf and Conrad

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

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

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

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

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...

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...

Overview of Author Virginia Woolf and Her Influence

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

High Modernism and Postmodern Art in the Works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Characters of Bertha and Clarissa Dalloway in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...

Characterization of Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...

Authors Embracing Marxis

respects ethics. Of course, that is not always apparent on the surface, but like much of his writings, Marx expresses a profound i...

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...

Virginia Woolf's 'The Voyage Out,' 'Mrs. Dalloway,' and Homosexuality

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

Burkean Cluster Analysis of the Writings of Virginia Woolf

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

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...

Twentieth Century British Experimental Literature

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

Comparative Analysis of the Perspectives of Sigmund Freud and Virginia Woolf

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

Text Reading and Whether or Not It Can be Changed Through the Study of Literature

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

An Analysis of Slavery and Freedom in America

This paper consisting of six pages analyzes early Virginia's demographic and economic development as it is depicted in American Sl...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

Stories by Virginia Woolf, Their Themes and Symbolism

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

Female Protagonist in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

his own resulting suicide because he believes his life is not worth living (which, in many ways, parallels Clarissas own ambivalen...

Feminism and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

low energy. Small conservative town in New England, but situated in the progressive atmosphere of an University. This is very symb...

Comparison of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Emma by Jane Austen

This is reflected in Emmas refusal to allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a ...

Critiquing 'Professions for Women' and 'The Mark on the Wall' by Virginia Woolf

the genius of Woolf. The womans thoughts, though they seem to be idle ramblings, are quite symbolic of Woolfes views on the direct...

Illusion and Truth in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

In five pages this paper examines symbolism, truth, and illusion as represented in this play by Edward Albee. Six sources are cit...