Virginia Woolf: Just a Misunderstood Women

Throughout her essay, Woolf never once describes to us her immediate surroundings. By describing only what is outside, Woolf isolates herself from the rest of the world, instead of embracing it as Dillard did. She is chiefly concerned with describing where she isn't. Her focus is on the world outside of her window. She describes the field that is being plowed, the black, net-like flock of birds flying together. These images engender a rather unpleasant feeling of dreariness.

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.

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.

Despite any futile resistance, every living creature eventually succumbs to death. Ultimately, death is part of living. Death is inevitable. Likewise, although a diminutive moth may appear to be insignificant and pathetic, it can symbolize the true, many connections between the duality of life and death and human beings. For instance, Annie Dillard and Virginia Woolf illustrate similar, universal messages of the value of life through the metaphor of a moth. However, the manner in which they portray their themes and purpose varies, for their personal experiences and writing styles influence their provisions of life and death.

Unlike Annie Dillard, Virginia Woolf was an essayist during the turbulence of the early twentieth century, where she witnessed the atrocities of both world wars and the lack of women in the intellectual realm. Ultimately, Woolf decided to end her own life by drowning herself. Therefore, her views of life

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

Virginia Woolf and Annie Dillard are two exceptionally talented authors who wrote two comparative pieces. In response to Woolf's essay, “The Death of the Moth”, Dillard wrote a companion piece titled “Death of a Moth”. With vivid imagery and creative diction, both authors wrote themselves into the narrative and became a character within their own story, giving them a unique point of view. As they each recounted the moments leading up to the symbolic end of their moths’ life, it becomes clear both writers were affected by the death, but the impressions that the moth left were greatly contrasted. Witnessing the moths failed attempt at escape, Woolf was inspired to accept death and the finality that comes with it.

Historically, women faced many struggles with not being viewed as strong, independent, and intelligent. They were limited to just being a wife, unable to work, and not valued for anything other than their sacrifices. In 1931, Novelist Virginia Woolf spoke about these issues to the Women’s Service League. Woolf used rhetoric to effectively speak to her audience; the rhetorical devices of allusion, parallelism, and imagery furthered her argument and encouraged her audience to construct their own position in society rather than conform to accepted roles.

Woolf demonstrates how women writers have often failed in this because of our frustration and bitterness with a world that presented to us and our writing not welcome, or even indifference, but hostility (41). She makes it clear that if there is ever going to be a “Shakespeare’s sister,” we must---at least while we are writing---swallow that sense of having been wronged, for it stands as an impediment to our creativity. This is the mental freedom that women writers must attain.

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.

Virginia Woolf is a married woman who had public affairs with women and who shares a chaste kiss with her sister during her narrative. Woolf is also the author of Mrs. Dalloway, a novel that centers on Clarissa Dalloway, a woman who feels the same way "as men feel" (Woolf 36) about women, yet marries a man as society dictates.

Post World War I London society was characterized by a flow of new luxuries available to the wealthy and unemployment throughout the lower classes. Fascinated by the rapidly growing hierarchal social class system, Virginia Woolf, a young writer living in London at the time, sought to criticize it and reveal the corruption which lay beneath its surface. Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf’s fourth novel, was born in 1925 out of this desire precisely. A recurring focus in many of Woolf’s major novels is the individual and his or her conscious perceptions of daily life. Throughout Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf uses this technique, known as a “stream-of-consciousness,” to trace the thoughts of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith during one day in London five years after the Great War. It is exactly this narrative technique which allows Woolf to compare the lives of these two characters which belong to different social classes to argue that social placement has a negative effect on one’s life and psychological being.

While Woolf makes very good points throughout her essay based many interesting points, one cannot help

In the book Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf wanted to cast the social system and bash it for how it worked. Her intricate focus is focusing not on the people, but on the morals of a certain class at a certain historical moment.

The title of my project is Virginia Woolf as a feminist in reference to Mrs. Dalloway.