Caitlyn Hair AP Language and Composition Professions for Women 21 January 2015 1. According to Virginia Woolf‚ what are two main obstacles to women’s professional identity? Are these still the two main obstacles‚ or does the contemporary women face different hurdles? Explain. The two main obstacles to women’s professional identify is the expectations of society and the expectations she has for herself. These obstacles still exist today but to a certain degree. In 1930 society’s expectation for
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in actual words; that is…” (Woolf 60). He is shown being plagued by numbness and a desperate need to communicate with someone about how he is feeling. He feels as though “some horror had come almost to the surface and was about to burst in flames” (Woolf 33)‚ just by looking at a car. Coming back from the war made him see the worst in things and in
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Woolf incorporates symbolism in her essay by describing the moth as life and energy. "So simple a form of the energy" and "taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers‚ had set it dancing and zig-zagging to show us the true nature of life" quoted from the essay. Another way she incorporates symbolism is by describing the months journey to death. Woolf also describes the scenery‚ the horses‚ and the farm itself. The month had traveled from one windowsill
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New Criticism approach to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway‚ by Virginia Woolf‚ was set in a time period shortly after World War I. An omniscient narrator narrates the novel and it gives the reader response full access of what is happening in the minds of the characters from different points of views. In the close reading of a particular excerpt‚ it shows the relationship of a husband‚ a WW I veteran‚ and his wife. The text can be found on page 23 of the novel. “For she could no
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Social Concerns As the daughter of two prototypically Eminent Victorians—Sir Leslie Stephen‚ the editor of The Dictionary of National Biography and Julia Stephen‚ a member of the prestigious Pre-Raphaelite circle—Virginia Woolf was raised in what Sandra Gilbert calls a "mausoleum of (a) late Victorian household" (No Man’s Land‚ Vol. III‚ Letters from the Front‚ 1994)‚ but the death of her father in 1904 when she was twenty-two dislodged her from the restrictions and expectations of some deeply entrenched
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May 8th ‚ 2009 Abstract As one of the representative writers of novels of stream of consciousness‚ Virginia Woolf has made important contributions to the development of the technique of stream of consciousness by confirming her own original literary views through the design of a unique structure of stream of consciousness in one of her masterpieces—Mrs. Dalloway. Virginia Woolf constantly breaks through the tradition and works hard for the innovation throughout her life. Mrs. Dalloway expresses
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Guy Honors Euro. Lit. 2 April 2015 Under The Guise of Equality Throughout the course of British literature‚ few women writers displayed as knowledgeable of writing as Virginia Woolf. In her papers‚ she describes the state of women in 20th century Britain and how society views them. Two major things that she notes are the widespread oppression of
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Michael Cunningham ’s The Hours and Postmodern Artistic Re-Presentation MARY JOE HUGHES ow that Michael Cunningham ’s The Hours has been made into a film representing yet another echo of Woolf ’s Mrs. DaUo\va\\ it is worth investigating just how the later novel conceives its relation to its predecessor. Because The Hours directly lakes the role of literature as one of its subjects‚ it may provide a model for considering postmodern artistic representation more generally. Such re-telling or re-presentation
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Virginia Woolf‚ acknowledged as one of the greatest female writers of her time‚ and ours‚ wrote two essays in which she attended the meals of a men’s and women’s university. In the first passage‚ Woolf describes an extravagant luncheon at a men’s college‚ using long and flowing sentences to express the seamless opulence of the "many and various retinue[s]" displayed at the convention. On the other hand‚ in the second passage Woolf illustrates a bland‚ plain‚ and institutional-like dining hall. It
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Although the entire novel tells of only one day‚ Virginia Woolf covers a lifetime in her enlightening novel of the mystery of the human personality. The delicate Clarissa Dalloway‚ a disciplined English lady‚ provides the perfect contrast to Septimus Warren Smith‚ an insane ex-soldier living in chaos. The reader also learns of Clarissa Dalloway through the thoughts of other characters‚ such as her old passion Peter Walsh‚ her husband Richard‚ and her daughter Elizabeth. Septimus Warren Smith‚ driven
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