Virginia Woolf Research Paper

Virginia Woolf: Simplistic Vs. Innovator Virginia Woolf is recognized as one of the most adamant novelists’ and greatest innovators of modern fiction. Her expertise with point of view and her use of stream of consciousness have influenced many writers after her. Woolf based her literary traditions and writings on her education and upbringing. Her views of the gender roles in her Victorian childhood and her ideas in contemporary society influenced her writing greatly. Both Woolf’s novels and her autobiographical writings are marked by a complexity of meaning, even a duality, which was most likely influenced by her own experiences.
To characterize my own personal writing style, I need to reflect on my education background and how those instances shaped my writing. My upbringing, unlike that of Virginia Woolf, was in a nurturing and secure home where
Some suicides seem more rational than others, but to know what was happening in Woolf’s own mind and perception is impossible. “Virginia Woolf drowned herself, a victim of her own excessive sensibility” (Rose 244). Woolf did not suffer from war-time tension or family history or bad reviews, but instead suffered from the invasion of her own mind. Her mind ran free and her writing was her escape, her own escape to allow her to free her thoughts and feeling without the fear of being judged. Virginia Woolf’s delicate state of mind but her brilliant ways of writing have influenced me greatly in the way I perceive my own experiences and I cherish my upbringing. If she speaks to me in one specific way it would be that her fears speak for other people’s fears, her ups and downs relive with others and she speaks for a class and not just or herself alone and because she formed her life around one thing; to write. “Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his