She became popular among other feminists. In many of her novels, Woolf discussed women’s roles in society and how they were affected by gender division. She shared her opinions and experiences with others to give them insight on what women went through during this period. Virginia Woolf, who grew up in the upper-middle-class, was more privileged than most. Even her life was still unfair. All women should have the same rights as men. They should be able to make decisions for themselves. Women lacked voting rights, education opportunities, and the ability to work in the career of their choice. Men viewed themselves as superior to women, often controlling their every move. Woolf shared her opinion in her novel A Room of One’s Own. The book directly critiques and questions the gendered norms that people lived by. From Virginia Woolf’s perspective, the main message of the book was “women are entitled to and must claim a room of their own in order to be able to create and obtain freedom just as their privileged husbands, fathers and brothers have done throughout history.” (Jayakrishna) Virginia Woolf was best known for her novel Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus are the main characters in this book. Each of the two characters show a different side of Virginia Woolf. Clarissa is a privileged girl who had to deal with problems that all women faced during this time. Septimus was a veteran
She became popular among other feminists. In many of her novels, Woolf discussed women’s roles in society and how they were affected by gender division. She shared her opinions and experiences with others to give them insight on what women went through during this period. Virginia Woolf, who grew up in the upper-middle-class, was more privileged than most. Even her life was still unfair. All women should have the same rights as men. They should be able to make decisions for themselves. Women lacked voting rights, education opportunities, and the ability to work in the career of their choice. Men viewed themselves as superior to women, often controlling their every move. Woolf shared her opinion in her novel A Room of One’s Own. The book directly critiques and questions the gendered norms that people lived by. From Virginia Woolf’s perspective, the main message of the book was “women are entitled to and must claim a room of their own in order to be able to create and obtain freedom just as their privileged husbands, fathers and brothers have done throughout history.” (Jayakrishna) Virginia Woolf was best known for her novel Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus are the main characters in this book. Each of the two characters show a different side of Virginia Woolf. Clarissa is a privileged girl who had to deal with problems that all women faced during this time. Septimus was a veteran