YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Modernity in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Essays 61 - 90
In five pages these two female characters are compared. There are no other sources listed....
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...
do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf foll...
can do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf ...
This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...
chapters, Woolf presents scenes of varying lengths, which are separated by a blank space, with each scene offering a fragmentary v...
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...
however, the lives of the fictional Frankenstein and the author of the book had many similarities. Both were treated as objects r...
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...
to dehumanize both the invader and the invaded to the extent that the value of human life is lost(Phillips 123). Phillips ...
symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...
the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...
"linear narrative and instead went to an interior monologue, or stream of consciousness, technique"(Virginia Woolf, 2003). Woolfs...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
that women are made to believe their worth is based solely upon their fashion sense. That women have been forced to prove their w...
As Burke notes for the process in general, Woolfs work exemplifies the fact that the symbolic means of rhetoric is directly associ...
size." This, of course, refers to the way that women have, traditionally, bolstered the ego of the man in their lives. The man per...
that a female writer needs a room of ones own, she means this both figuratively and literally. She says: "All I could do was to of...
criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...
In six pages this paper examines how women are portrayed in the works of Gustave Courbet, Charles Darwin, Franz Kafka, and Virgini...
the life of most humans, it is both mediocre and glorious. Woolf watches this small and ordinary creature fly against the pane of...
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....
she begins her voyage into public identity, she cannot survive the pressure of being brought out and seems uncannily to die of the...
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...
respects ethics. Of course, that is not always apparent on the surface, but like much of his writings, Marx expresses a profound i...
that takes individual characteristics far from their origin but then allows them to flow back. At the same time, that identity fus...
(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...