Analyzing Woolf´s View on Wealth and a Room of One´s Own is Necessary to Become a Good Writer

Ernest Hemingway once said, “It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” Hard to argue semantics with a man who won a Nobel Prize in literature. From classic writers, such as Sir Author Conan Doyal and Edgar Allen Poe, to contemporary writers, such as, Mark Twain and Stephen King, they all started at the same place, the beginning. The most famous poems, plays, songs, books, and movies that have stood the test of time and a now considered masterpieces all have one thing in common, they are written well. They are immortalized because of the way the words were strung together and kept their audiences captivated. Those writers were able to mesmerize their audiences because they learned the fundamentals of the written word. Good writers understand the fundamentals build into the many variables that come together to create a well written piece.

Virginia Woolf in “A Room of One’s Own” uses the symbolism of a room to express solitude and leisure time. Women were excluded from education and the unequal distribution of wealth. Through this idea, women lack the essential necessities to produce their own creativity. Women wrote out of their own anger and insecurity. Men wrote intellectual passages that were highly praised because a woman could never live up to a man’s expectations in literature due to lack of education.

Virginia Woolf’s fulsome poise and self-worth proves that she is worthy of being admired and looked up to by other women. She shares her beliefs of willingly going against what society has in mind for women and encourages women to be who they please to be. In doing so, she hopes to open up the sturdy doors that keep many women trapped away from their natural rights. All in all, Virginia Woolf’s speech, “Professions for Women” encourages women to ignore the limits society sets on them and be who they wish to be and do what they desire. Virginia Woolf’s rhetorical strategies in addition to her use of metaphor contribute to the overall effectiveness in fulfilling the purpose of her essay.

Writing have a lot of advantages that if the writer improved his writing these advantages will increase. Firstly, it is required in the daily life in a very wide range. For example, you need to write e-mails to your professors, applying for a job, writing a research and a lot of other stuff that needs to be tangible. Secondly, writing helps the writer to plan his goals perfectly. According to a research, most people who succeeded in

In the quote, Woolf is discussing the confidence of women. Since the job of a woman is basically to be inferior to men, women are losing confidence. Women are constantly struggling to do what they want as they require, “gigantic courage and strength”. Wolf believes that men have purposefully made women inferior in order to reinforce their own confidence. Thus, this lack of confidence not only led to lack of quality life for women but also led to a lack of writing. However, even with this lack confidence women continue to persist and do everything they can to write. Woolf believes that if women did have more money and confidence, then they would not have to be so inferior and get married to men so early on. Woolf believes she could have done what she wanted as she would have been financially stable and not be reliant on others. Thus, Woolf could have been the boss of herself with freedom and time. With this freedom and time, Woolf and other women could have had the opportunities to produce the works they wanted to and get it published.

Back in the day almost everyone viewed woman to be the person who cleans, cooks, has children, and obeys her husband. Even woman themselves had this view hammered into their minds at such a young age, the views that women are inferior to men. This stigma of woman can be found traced throughout Virginia Woolf’s essay of two meals, a meal for men and a meal for women at a college. She uses numerous composition techniques and effectively disperses them throughout her narrative. By doing so, she accurately demonstrates her views on society’s stigma of a woman's role in an eloquent manner.

Many lose their confidence when they begin writing since it is difficult for them to get down their thoughts in a truthful and interesting way

In Virginia Woolf’s speech “Professions for Women”, it employs various techniques in order to get her argument across. Throughout the speech Virginia Woolf brings forward a problem that is still relevant today: gender inequality. Woolf’s combination brings of extended metaphors, irony, vivid imagery, anaphora and repetition emphasizes her philosophical ideal of supporting gender equality.

Today the equality between men and woman is closer then it ever has before in history, with women CEO’s and stay at home dads. This happened because of the strong woman in history fighting for the same rights as man, private property, creative freedom, and the power to use their intellect. Virginia Woolf is one of those ladies arguing that, “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She believes that women are locked in some sort of intellectual prison and not being able to have money or privacy keeps them locked, unable to blossom intellectually.

Fortunately, writing is a skill that can be both taught and practiced to a point

Woolf doesn't believe that a woman has shown who she is if she hasn't yet written anything to express herself. A woman could express herself based on the experiences you have been through. The fiction in a figurative sense forces her to think about her past. " But this freedom is only a beginning: the room is your own, but it is still bare. It has to be furnished” (Woolf 247), it is shown that a room represents their property.. It allows you to reflect about who you truly are and it shows that it's only yours. Freedom isn't something common for women, so the freedom given within this room allows them to think and build up the "furniture" which is the fiction in writing, becoming an author

In Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay “A Room of One’s Own,” Woolf argues that “a woman must have money and a room of her own” (16) if she is to write fiction of any merit. The point as she develops it is a perceptive one, and far more layered and various in its implications than it might at first seem. But I wonder if perhaps Woolf did not really tap the full power of her thesis. She recognized the necessity of the writer’s financial independence to the birth of great writing, but she failed to discover the true relationship to great writing of another freedom; for just as economic freedom allows one to inhabit a physical space---a room of one’s own---so does mental freedom allow one to inhabit one’s own mind and body “incandescent and

Woolf believes that women are different from men both in their social history as well as inherently, and that each of these differences has had important effects on the development of women 's writing.

In her essay “In Search of a Room of One’s Own” Virginia Woolf used Shakespeare’s sister as a metaphor to explain the position of women in Elizabethan era. Since author finds it difficult to find any trace of women in the Elizabethan era, she creates a fictional character through imagination, and to feel situations that the women in Elizabethan society would have had to go through. Woolf compares fiction to a “spider’s web” (520) that permeates life “at all four corners” (520). Through this metaphor, she personifies narratives of women suffering as a spider’s web that cling to our material reality. For Woolf, our lived stories are a part of this web which can be changed, destroyed or, re-spin with our imagination. In my paper, I argue that Wolfe uses the metaphor of a spider’s web as a heuristic device to make a case for literacy analysis and fiction as tools for exercising narrative agency and challenging stories that deny us representation in this world. To illustrate this, she creates an imaginative character, named Judith Shakespeare, to surface the gender inequality in the Elizabethan era. For this purpose, she not only writes a new chapter of Elizabethan history that centers the perspective of the women, but she also gives voice to women of that era who, like Judith her main character, were silenced and delegitimized by the spider’s web of their time.

People may find Woolf's theories outdated; the statement "For genius like Shakespeare's is not born among laboring, uneducated, servile people" would be met with controversy if published today (Woolf 46). It is important to remember that Woolf believes that money and personal independence go hand in hand with freedom of thought, and that poverty and its attendant troubles prevent such thought. She admits that brilliance can emerge from low working classes but is rare. Woolf is clearly at odds with any kind of "protest" literature, feeling that it reduces the "incandescent" talent of the writer (Woolf 56).