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    In the essay A Room of One’s Own‚ the author Virginia Woolf states that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She believes that women need money as it would release them from their dependence on men; and a room of their own as it would provide them with the time and space in order to write with no interruptions. The money and the room are symbolic of greater issues‚ such as freedom‚ privacy and financial independence. In the early 20th century‚ due to their lack

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    VIRGINIA WOOLF; BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS An Album Submitted for Final Exam History of English Literature 2011 DHINI R. H_06185065 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT-ANDALAS UNIVERSITY 1/7/2011 VIRGINIA WOOLF – BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS An Album Submitted for Final Exam History of English Literature Compiled by: DHINI REZKY HUSADA 06 185 065 ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT FACULTY OF LETTERS ANDALAS UNIVERSITY PADANG 2011 I INTRODUCTION The movement of English literature is immortalized by

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    Cited: Goldman‚ Jane. "The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism‚ Post- Impressionism and the Politics of the Visual". Cambridge‚ U.K.‚ New York‚ NY: Cambridge‚ 1998. 100-115.

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    warren smith. These citizens grow up under the same social institutions and although classes are drawn up on wealth; it can be conceived that two people may have very similar opinions of the society that created them. The English society which Virginia Woolf presents individuals that are uncannily similar. These two individuals carry the names of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith. Clarissa and Septimus‚ share the quality of communicating through actions‚ not words‚ and perceiving death as

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    stereotypes. In Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own‚ she comments on society’s seemingly incessant subjugation of female writers and its impact. As women were expected to live a humble lifestyle‚ the means of obtaining an education remained unfeasible for many women. Woolf alludes to Judith Shakespeare—a fictional character‚ to describe a woman’s plight. Judith “remained at home” with “no chance of learning” as she was conformed to “the conditions of life for a woman” (Woolf.3.4-5). Despite

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    Flowing from Virginia Woolf’s poem “Memoirs of Being” is a beautiful piece of her childhood. This picture that has been created‚ is one that is filled with imagery‚ anaphora‚ and is an allusion to a time when her cares were not burdened in the way that they would become later in the poem. We can see that the piece is a picture of a time of youth. One that is not yet marred with the understanding of consequences. And a joy can be seen from start to finish‚ but her understanding of that joy experienced

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    writer’s essay brings out many of each of their characteristics and views. Also‚ the difference in writing styles could be drastic‚ or slight. Nevertheless‚ the writers display how versatile the English language can be. Alice Walker was born in 1944 as a farm girl in Georgia. Virginia Woolf was born in London in1882. They have both come to be highly recognized writers of their time‚ and they both have rather large portfolios of work. The scenes the might have grown up seeing and living through

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    Mrs. Dalloway is a complex and compelling modernist novel by Virginia Woolf. In the novel‚ published in 1925‚ Woolf comes up with a new literary form using which she reveals her views of political‚ economical and social issues artistically in her work. Virginia Woolfs short stories‚ essays‚ letters‚ diaries and novels are full of criticism of the social structure. For example‚ in her first novel‚ Night and Day (1919)‚ she criticizes the patriarchal dividend in the family that enslaves women. In

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    SOLID OBJECTS‚ Virginia Woolf The only thing that moved upon the vast semicircle of the beach was one small black spot. As it came nearer to the ribs and spine of the stranded pilchard boat‚ it became apparent from a certain tenuity in its blackness that this spot possessed four legs; and moment by moment it became more unmistakable that it was composed of the persons of two young men. Even thus in outline against the sand there was an unmistakable vitality in them; an indescribable vigour in the

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