symbolism in to the Lighthouse

1. •....NAME : BORICHA DEVIKA K
•....SEM: (3)
•....PAPER NO:(9) MODERNIST LITERATURE
•....devikaboricha08@gmail.com
•....SUBJECT: “SYMBOLISM INTO THE LIGHTHOUSE”
•....MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
•....DR.DILIP BARAD

2. ........To the Lighthouse is
a 1927 novel by Virginia
W00lf.
.........English author Virginia
Woolf wrote modernist
classics including 'Mrs.
Dalloway' and 'To the
Lighthouse,' as well as
pioneering feminist texts, 'A
Room of One's Own' and
'Three Guineas.
...........She was born on 25
January 1882and died on 28
march 1941
INTRODUCTIPON OF WRITER

3. (‘SYMBOLISM IN ‘TO THE LIGHTHOUSE’)
.....LIGHTHOUSE: Titular Significance.
.......LILY’S PAINTING.
.........RAMSAY’S SUMMER HOUSE.
..........THE SEA, THE STORMS, THE ROCK, REEFS AND
SHALLOW WATER.
.......THE BOAR’S SKULL.
..........ROSE’S ARRANGEMENT OF THE GRAPES AND PEARS
...........FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE.

4. .....Lily as a women artist and
symbolizes woman’s struggle in
patriarchal society.
........Woman can not
write or paint it’s
against gender
convention.
LILY’S
PAINTING

5. .....A Young single
woman who do
painting of
Mrs.Ramsay.
......Lily makes the
choice to establish
her own artistic
voice.
.....Lily’s painting it
is victory of woman
in patriarchal
world or society.
............Her vision depends on
balance and synthesis : how to bring
together disparate things in
harmony.
............Other characters in the book
seem to have different opinions
about her painting. Mrs. Ramsay,
William Bankes, and Charles
Tansley all have differing views
about Lily’s painting.
While showing her painting to
William Bankes, Lily realizes that
she doesn’t like it. During Mrs.
Ramsay’s dinner party, Lily realizes
what she needs to do to fix her
painting but doesn’t until the end of
the story.
............... this mirrors Woolf's
writing creed-’’The novel is a both a
critique and a tribute to the
enduring power of Mrs.Ramsay.

6. ..........................Ramsay’s summer house is also one of the important
symbols of the novel. This is a crucial symbol to understand. This is the
place where all deed happens. Ramsay’s House is a place where Woolf
and her characters explain their belief and observation.
…………………During her dinner party, Mrs. Ramsay’s sees her
house display her own inner notions of shabbiness and her inability to
preserve beauty. The house stands for the collective consciousness of
those who stay in it. From the dinner party to the journey to The
Lighthouse, Woolf shows the house from every angle.
*RAMSAYS’S SUMMER HOUSE

7. ………..This is one of the important and mysterious symbols of the novel. It shows the
reality and universal truth. It leads toward right way of life. That death is ultimate
reality.
……….. After the completing of dinner party, Children went upstairs for plating
some games. Then Mrs. Ramsay went upstairs to find the children wide-awake, bothered
by the boar’s skull that hangs on the nursery wall. The presence of that skull is something
unpleasant and disturbing.
…………….This skull reminder us that death is always at hand. Even during life’s blissful
moments. It explains that if we are so happy in any time, we should keep in mind that we
have to die at some moment of life. We have to leave all things here. This symbol shows
ultimate reality of this cruel life that we can die any time.
*The Boar‘s skull

8. …………Although Augustus Carmichael and Mrs.Ramsay appreciate the arrangement
differently—he rips a bloom from it; she refuses to disturb it—the pair is brought
harmoniously, if briefly, together. The basket testifies both to the “frozen” quality of beauty
that Lily describes and to beauty’s seductive and soothing quality. The absence of fruit
basket in 3rd part signifies the transitory nature of beauty, art and truth.
…….The arrangement of fruits
in the basket by Rose, it symbolized
some truth of life and death.
Metaphorically it gives message. This
is very important symbol of the
novel. Rose arranges a fruit basket
for her mother’s dinner party that
serves to draw the partygoers out of
their private suffering and unite
them.
*ROSE’S ARRANGEMENT
OF THE GRAPES AND PEARS

9. *The Sea, the Storms, the rock, reefs and shallow water

10. ………….Woolf describes the sea lovingly and beautifully, but her most evocative
depictions of it point to its violence.
…………… As a force that brings destruction, has the power to decimate islands, and,
as Mr. Ramsay reflects, “Eats away the ground we stand on,” the
sea is a powerful reminder of the impermanence and delicacy of human life and
accomplishments.
*sea
*The Storm
……The Storm is symbolized something horrible thing of life and
death. As can see that in the storm there is a element of Air and Wind. It
contains both the thing in it.
…….Both are the constructive element of life. Air is representing the
mind, and water is representing the emotion of life. The Storm symbolized
agitated thoughts and emotions. Metaphorically, storms are our inner
Demons which torment both our mind and subconscious.

11. ……..These symbols are showing certainty of life. The rock show the life is
too hard to life. It gives suffer, as Mrs. Ramsays survived her life. The
rocks, reefs and shallow water symbolized the final danger and miseries
which seem to accompany the end of any turbulent voyage.
……Just as the saying. “its always seems always darkest before the dawn”,
things always seem the most dangerous and hopeless as we reach the end
of emotional turmoil. This is the point when we feel like tossing up our
hands and giving up.
*SHALLOW WATER

12. *The Window
The Window, a view to oneself: It is from the window that we have
the little of the part-I of To the Lighthouse. It is not a transparent but
a separating sheet of glass between reality and Mrs. Ramsay’s mind.
Mrs. Ramsay experiences such moments of revelation and integration
at watching the window.

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