Comparison of two different womanhood ( Representative of Modernist Age and Victorian Age ) : Mahotu short film also a short story by Raam Mori and To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

1. Womanhood in To The Lighthouse
and Mahotu :
• Name : Gohil Jyotiba M.
• Paper No : 9 : Modernist
Literature
• Roll No : 16
• Enrollment No :
2069108420180016
• Email ID :
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• Submitted To : Smt. S. B. Gardi ,
Department of English , MK
Bhavnagar Uni.
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2. ● Womanhood in To The Lighthouse :

3. ●Womanhood in Mahotu :

4. ● Character of Mrs Ramsay :
• Representative of Victorian Age
• Ideal woman
• Center of the house
• Satisfies male ego
• Fits well into patriarchal definition of womanhood
• Against freedom of woman
• Believe that real idea of womanhood is
motherhood
• Sacrifice personal ambition and passion
• Importance of Marriage

5. ● Character of Lily Briscoe :
•Representative of Modern Age
•Follow her passion
• Young and unmarried
•Independent and devoted artist
•Serious and deep thinker
•Anti – woman
•Struggle for her passion
•Love loneliness
•Against the idea of Marriage
•Love Freedom

6. ●Mrs Ramsay and Baa :
• Traditional woman
• Suffering in Patriarchal
society
• Sacrifice passion and
ambitions
• Lost their vision of living
freely
• Not Free to take decision
• Give importance to Marriage
• Reason of Daughter ‘s
Unhappiness

7. ● Lily Briscoe and Kangasdi :
• Follow their passion
• Fearless
• importance of freedom
• Struggling with society
• Strong
• humiliates by Society
• Importance of Self Respect

8. ● Conclusion :
• Suffering of Both Womanhood
• Society – Reason of Unhappiness
• Struggling for identity
• Conditioning the mind of woman
• Power of Patriarchy
• Restrictions
• Representative each other