Room Of One's Own Vs. Essay On Man

Room of One's Own vs Essay on Man

“It was certainly an odd monster that one made up….a worm winged like an eagle” ( Room of One's Own, Pg.33). Virginia Woolf had put into play many different uses of rhetorical devices throughout the story. Throughout this essay there will be a comparison between the both pieces of literature. Epistle 1 was chosen from essay on man which explains man’s relation to the universe and chapter 3 was chosen from Room of one's own. Both of the pieces of literature have distinct language styles and themes. Chapter 3 had focused mainly on the question of why didn't women write during the Elizabethan era. Throughout the both pieces of literature they had both presented uses of rhetorical devices and themes . Epistle 1 “Essay on Man” presented rhyme schemes and repetition. It had consisted nine heroic couplets, 18 lines a heroic couplet is a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style.An example of rhyme would be “..unknown to
In room of one's own the major theme in chapter 3 was “Women in Literature”. Virginia woolf had went on and explained the societal factors in which had withheld women from attaining opportunities. She had mentioned even if woman was the smartest person in the world she would get no importance. She demonstrates how different gender are have different roles in society,which affect behavior and opportunities for everyone. Now moving on, as for Essay on Man the major theme man’s relation to the universe. An example from epistle 1is The bliss of man [...] / Is, not to act of think beyond mankind” (189-90).Explains that we are not supposed to question why or how God put us in this earth because we as humans don’t have the intellect to think beyond the world which we live in. now in the next paragraph i will further discuss the themes applied to this