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    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In Act One‚ George warns Martha not to “bring up the kid.” Martha scoffs at his warning‚ and ultimately the topic of their son comes up into conversation. This upsets and annoys George. Martha hints that George is upset because he is not certain that the child is his. George confidently denies this‚ stating that if he is certain of anything‚ he is confident of his connection to the creation of their son. By the end of the play‚ Nick learns the shocking and bizarre

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    Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Modernism is a literary movement in which writers believed new forms of expression were necessary to relay the realities of a modern and fractured world. The modernist movement was concerned with creating works of art relevant to a rapidly changing world in which institutions such as religion‚ capitalism‚ and social order were thrown into question by new and confusing ideas‚ technologies and world events such as World War I. Virginia Woolf‚ one of the most eminent

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    Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is a play based on illusions. Each character lives their life behind some sort of illusion whether it’s based on their past‚ their marriage or their whole life. Each illusion presents a view into their personal lives and either connects or tears apart relationships in each character’s life. George’s life is surrounded by illusions. He never was able to succeed in anything he attempts and Martha finds joy in attacking him emotionally for this. He first

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    The Gap of Two Experiences and the Problem of Gender Inequality In two passages‚ Virginia Woolf describes her experience at a two cafeterias‚ one for a men’s college‚ and the other for a women’s college. Virginia Woolf uses complex diction‚ imagery and detail to convey her negative attitude towards women’s place in society. She also uses contrasting sentence lengths (short and long)‚ tones (awe and formulaic)‚ and imagery (vivid and bland) to help convey her attitude. Both passages contrast each

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    The story A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf is a short story full of symbolism‚ imagery‚ and irony. The story is narrated in the third-person limited or the limited omniscience point of view which helps the reader to get a more in-depth perception of how the ghosts and the living people feel and helps the reader understand some of the thoughts that these flat‚ static characters have throughout the story. The time period is never clearly stated but it appears to be a long time ago‚ possibly in the

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    - C. Rajagopalchari Nehru - Some Memories – Arnold Toynbee Tolerance - E.M.Forster The Lion and the Lamb - Leonard Clark Professions for Women – Virginia Woolf Little Things - Samuel Smiles Unit II – Drama Selected Scenes from Shakespeare’s Plays – Book I ( Emerald Publishers) Rs.35/- Funeral Oration ( Julius Caesar) Trial for a Pound of flesh ( The Merchant

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    from Virginia Woolf’s memoir “Moments of Being”‚ she constructs a memoir with optimistic diction to convey to humanity that the significant moments from the past are a lesson to be used in the future. In Woolf’s excerpt she reflects upon her childhood memories with her brother Thoby and her father at a seaside village. Woolf is indicating that some moments from that past are a lesson used in the future. One lesson learned was from a moment Woolf had with her brother and father fishing. Woolf states

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    I Want to be Heterosexual During the intimate process of multiplication‚ which took eight months‚ I sparkled and glittered my way out of one world and into another‚ which were similarly one-in-the-same. According to basic biology‚ and to my understanding‚ I’ve been living with a unique X and Y chromosome‚ and so I’ve been associating myself as that since the day of my birth. I’ve been surrounded by an exponential amount of estrogen my entire fabulous life‚ perhaps like women’s menstrual cycles

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    used as well more complexly as a structuring device through a movement backwards and forwards through time‚ the juxtaposing of events of different times‚ and so forth. A HAUNTED HOUSE is a symbolic representation of Modernism as seen through Virginia Woolf?s style. It is not accidental the fact that it is a short-novel; the profound concentration of

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    Through her starkly contrasting descriptions of the men’s and women’s dining halls at Oxford‚ Virginia Woolf highlights in her novel A Room of One’s Own‚ the inequality of education between men and women in the 1920’s. As a whole the dining halls not only represent a place to eat but also a place where‚ given the right conditions‚ profound discoveries can be made among like-minded people. Woolf alludes through her writing that by depriving women of a rich‚ comfortable environment they are essentially

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