Mrs Ramsay Analysis
Mrs Ramsay
As was the case with Lily, Mr Ramsay´s wife also relates to art in many different ways. Firstly, as it has been aforementioned, she tries to make of the moment something permanent and to create form out of chaos. As Caracciolo says “in her wish to bring people together, even in her housekeeping concerns, a whole aesthetics is implicit, with the claim that art imposes a shape on the shapeless, making of it ‘something permanent’” (Caracciolo, 259).
This “wish” of bringing people together can be appreciated in the fact that, as opposite to her husband, she is the one interested in the emotional part of the self, and as such, in the part that allows people to relate to others and to experience life as a net of interconnections. Thus, …show more content…
Minta, Paul, Andrew, and Nancy are late from their walk to the beach, Mr Ramsay acts rudely toward his guests and Charles Tansley continues to tease Lily. Nevertheless, as the time goes by this chaos turns into a situation of stability and bliss. All these characters who apparently seemed very different and distant ones from the others end up being together and sharing their time and space in the event that Mrs Ramsay has organised for them, and all their disparities and confrontations give place to a situation of harmony, in which peace and equilibrium are shared by all the members of the Ramsay family and their guests. In fact, it is when Mrs Ramsay achieves this moment of stability when we realise that she has managed to make order out of chaos and at the same time she has captured the essence of the moment she so fervently longed for. Then, she claims that this moment “had become, she knew, […] already the past” (Woolf, …show more content…
She represents someone who really wishes to do something different with her life but that cannot do so. She does not have the independency of Lily, thus, her attempts to create something permanent fail, and therefore, she is not the “artist of the everyday”. Instead, art becomes her disguise for the everyday, the thing that gives some sense to her life by making her believe that she is doing something she would really like to do, that she is not just a housekeeper but that has a job that gives some sense to her life. But the truth is that she is a repressed
As was the case with Lily, Mr Ramsay´s wife also relates to art in many different ways. Firstly, as it has been aforementioned, she tries to make of the moment something permanent and to create form out of chaos. As Caracciolo says “in her wish to bring people together, even in her housekeeping concerns, a whole aesthetics is implicit, with the claim that art imposes a shape on the shapeless, making of it ‘something permanent’” (Caracciolo, 259).
This “wish” of bringing people together can be appreciated in the fact that, as opposite to her husband, she is the one interested in the emotional part of the self, and as such, in the part that allows people to relate to others and to experience life as a net of interconnections. Thus, …show more content…
Minta, Paul, Andrew, and Nancy are late from their walk to the beach, Mr Ramsay acts rudely toward his guests and Charles Tansley continues to tease Lily. Nevertheless, as the time goes by this chaos turns into a situation of stability and bliss. All these characters who apparently seemed very different and distant ones from the others end up being together and sharing their time and space in the event that Mrs Ramsay has organised for them, and all their disparities and confrontations give place to a situation of harmony, in which peace and equilibrium are shared by all the members of the Ramsay family and their guests. In fact, it is when Mrs Ramsay achieves this moment of stability when we realise that she has managed to make order out of chaos and at the same time she has captured the essence of the moment she so fervently longed for. Then, she claims that this moment “had become, she knew, […] already the past” (Woolf, …show more content…
She represents someone who really wishes to do something different with her life but that cannot do so. She does not have the independency of Lily, thus, her attempts to create something permanent fail, and therefore, she is not the “artist of the everyday”. Instead, art becomes her disguise for the everyday, the thing that gives some sense to her life by making her believe that she is doing something she would really like to do, that she is not just a housekeeper but that has a job that gives some sense to her life. But the truth is that she is a repressed