Virginia Woolf's Different Perspectives

Power Struggles are very common is many marriages. In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, the relationship or marriage between George and Martha is based in power. The power struggle between George and Martha has become the basis of their relationship. Their love has turned into hate. The only connection they have is through their insults and the series of games they play. The power struggle between George and Martha develops is reveled and is resolved through out the play.

Virginia Woolf, in the excerpt from her memoirs, reflects upon her childhood summers, expressing the significance of the “perfect lesson” that impacted her life. Woolf captivates her reader by painting a vivid picture of a summer day spent on the luggar with her father before utilizing a metaphor to reveal how the experience had a profound impact on her. She does this in order to reveal how this memory left a lasting impression on her subsequent path through life. Woolf addresses to all who have an interest in her persona as a writer in a nostalgic and passionate tone. Woolf commences the excerpt by recounting her experience on a luggar with her brother and father.

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  Clarissa Dalloway, the central character in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, is a complex figure whose relations with other women reveal as much about her personality as do her own musings. By focusing at length on several characters, all of whom are in some way connected to Clarissa, Woolf expertly portrays the ways females interact: sometimes drawing upon one another for things which they cannot get from men; other times, turning on each other out of jealousy and insecurity.

The 1960s were a volatile time and an important season of change in American history. The revolutions in social mores that the country experienced extended to the cinema. Previously, films sought the endorsement of production associations and religious organizations. That trend began to be challenged by bold directors and their films that earned success without the approval of these establishments. With its brash dialogue and suggestive situations, Mike Nichols’ screen adaptation of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? caused controversy by continuing the radical movements of films in the 50’s and 60’s, leading to content changes as well the advisory of who should see it. Along with other films that came before it, this led to the creation of the MPAA ratings system to classify films based on content.

In Jane Austen’s day, there was no state-organised education system. There were church-run day schools in the best of cases for the lower class, but the genteel children of Austen’s novels were given lessons at home by their parents or by tutors, or they were boarders or in local schools to which girls were not admitted. Parents had the choice for their children’s education and upbringing, but the choice depended mainly on their financial resources. Women were not allowed to attend public schools and since they did not usually make a career (the exception being if they were obliged because of their financial situation to become a governess), parents (and society) saw no need for them to receive higher education. “Female education” referred to women receiving a practical (and religious) training for their future domestic roles. Domestic training would be sewing or needlework,

Equal opportunity in the workplace is somewhat of a challenge for women. Virginia Woolf discusses that there are more obstacles in the workplace for women than there are for men. Women who are intelligent and good at what they do shouldn’t have to work as hard as they do to get the respect they deserve. Woolf mentions that she kills the Angel of the House. The interpretation of the angle depends on the person. One way to interpret it is that the angel was the little voice that is in her head telling her to act a certain way because she is a woman. Woolf applauds herself for killing the angle but she states, “The struggle was severe” (378). Once she “kills” the angle she is able to find herself and have a mind of her own.

Most of the figurative expressions that were used by her such as simile and metaphor in the description of London as a place “where beauty goes unrewarded”(pg.9), where the end of the west world is “a small golden tassel on the edge of a vast black coach”(pg.12). In addition, Virginia Woolf demonstrates some metaphoric continuity: the first one, she depicts London as less than important because it looks too small .The second one, she depicts it as lowly because it seems so shabby. As Craig Hamilton (2004: 5)

Since the beginning of time, humans have had vices, many of them psychoactive drugs. Similarly, mankind has always had a history of prejudice and mistreatment of groups with different beliefs or different skin color. In America, legislation of these drugs has often been used as a method to control minority groups. From alcohol in the 1800’s through opium in the mid 1800’s to cocaine in the early 1900’s and marijuana in the 1930’s, drug legislation has largely been driven by groups of people with prejudices against certain minority and ethnic groups. Through gaining support in Congress and often the backing of big industry money, these groups would push to ban or restrict these drugs that were usually associated with a minority group they opposed.

If thoughts on the world could represent an inanimate object in Virginia Woolf’s essays, they would most definitely be of an X-ray. Thus, Woolf’s Professions for Women and Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid are both prime examples from her assortment of works that can be used as evidence, effectively showing her representation of the world. A representation that ends up being very reminiscent to an X-ray in more ways than one. As a result, examining both essays by Woolf would be the only way to show a consistency in her representation, especially because they create the effect in a very similar, but different way. Although hard to believe at first, this representation of the world being similar to an X-ray starts making sense after realizing the way in which Woolf dissects the world by giving deep insight on the unknown, uncovering its flaws, and making the world easy to understand, similar to how a radiologist would describe the results of an X-ray to a patient. The difference lies in the fact that Professions for Women and Thoughts on Peace use different techniques and literary elements in order to create this effect.

Many female writers see themselves as advocates for other creative females to help find their voice as a woman. Although this may be true, writer Virginia Woolf made her life mission to help women find their voice as a writer, no gender attached. She believed women had the creativity and power to write, not better than men, but as equals. Yet throughout history, women have been neglected in a sense, and Woolf attempted to find them. In her essay, A Room of One’s Own, she focuses on what is meant by connecting the terms, women and fiction. Woolf divided this thought into three categories: what women are like throughout history, women and the fiction they write, and women and the fiction written about them. When one thinks of women and

Due to their lack of educational opportunities during the Victorian era, women were more educated in domesticity, while men were taught in various subjects. Wollstonecraft describes the education that women receive to be “a disorderly kind of education” (161). If women were given equal educational opportunities as men, then it would allow them to become more empowered. Wollstonecraft states, “Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience…” (163). Meaning that by providing women with a educational equivalent to men, then it would put an end to women having to be reliant on men and be able to independent. Therefore, women will not have to feel inferior to their male counterparts. She encourages women to become more empowered and challenge the gender constructs of society.

In Pride and Prejudice, Austen describes to the reader how women were treated differently from men; whether it was in education, the workforce, or politically. Women typically did not have an education in the eighteenth century, as for Elizabeth and her sisters, they were among the girls who was not able to attend school nor had a governess. Elizabeth may not have had any real teaching, but she learned a lot from reading - in an interrogating conversation with Lady Catherine about her education, Eliza says, ". . . such of us as wished to learn, never wanted the means. We were always encouraged to read and had all the masters that were necessary. Those who chose to be idle certainly might" (Pride and Prejudice 86). Many

Throughout Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf uses the characters Clarissa and Lucrezia not only to further the plot of the story but to make a profound statement about the role of wives in both society and their marriages. While these women are subjected to differing experiences in their marriages, there is one common thread that unites each of their marriages: oppression. These women drive the story of Mrs. Dalloway and provide meaning and reason in the lives of the men in the story; however, these women are slowly but surely forced to forsake their own ambitions in order to act in accordance with the social standards set in place by marriage for women. For women outside of many modern cultures, marriage has been a necessity for a woman’s safety and security, and it required her to give up her freedom and passions and subjected her to an oppressed lifestyle. Ultimately, through the wives in Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf communicates that marriage is an institution where in women are forced to suppress their individual desires and passions in order to serve their husband and further his own ambitions as first priority.

n today’s society, the human body is placed on a pedestal for the world to critique. Both women and men are seen as individuals that are supposed to act, dress, and look a certain way. If they falter, they are seen as strange and sometimes called names; this is especially true for women. According to society, man is woman’s better half, and many philosophers have shown interest in this correlation. Beauvoir, in her book The Second Sex, she talks about how women are the “other” and are seen as being less than men are. Also, Young explains in her paper, Throwing Like a Girl, how men and women approach certain obstacles differently. Along with Young’s, paper a company called Always made a promo #LikeAGirl and put into practice what Young states in her paper. Though these philosophers and company have tried to push for woman equality, other companies, such as Hardies, have stopped their efforts. So why do we see women as the lesser half? It is because, how we see the human body, particularly women, is in direct correlation to where and how we are raised.