Comparetive Analysis of The character Mrs. Ramsey And Lily Briscoe.
1. Name: Sejal Vaghela P.
No. 27
Paper no. 9
Modernist Literature
Comparetive Analysis of
The character Mrs. Ramsey
And Lily Briscoe.
Submitted to: Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Sejal.vaghela43@gmail.com
2. Virginia Woolf
• Virginia Woolf was born on 25th
January, 1882.
• Woolf grew up among the most
important and influential British
intellectuals of her time, and
received free rein to explore her
father’s library.
• Her personal connections and
abundant talent soon opened doors
for her.
3. Mrs. Ramsey
• Mrs. Ramsey is a wife, a mother of eight
children, House wife.
• Mrs. Ramsey is also at the center of her
family.
• Mrs. Ramsey’s talent of bringing people
together an art.
• Mrs. Ramsey is a critical thinker of a
different sort than is usually expected.
• She questions her self and her motives
and looks opened eye at her faults.
4. Lily Briscoe
• Lily Briscoe is not a traditional
protagonist for a novel.
• She is a quite reserve unassuming.
• She is not famous or highly
regarded by a community.
• She is unattached to family,
merely a friend of the family.
• Lily Briscoe feels the social
norms.
5. Mrs. Ramsey
• Mrs. Ramsey is another of Virginia Woolf’s characters
whom she gives an unprecented place at the center of a
novel.
• She keeps an open mind in a seeing other people, like
Charles Tansley for instance.
• While she consider him a distasteful person, she keeps her
mind open to finding his good qualities.
• She even makes an attempt at sociology in her charity
work.
• Mrs. Ramsey is a great amount of dignity, according to
Woolf.
6. Lily Briscoe
• All of these attributes make Lily Briscoe a perfect Protagonist of a
modernist novel.
• She is not great artist in the sense that she has not achieved success
or been recognized by other artists.
• Using the point of view of someone who is slightly outside the
norm, Virginia Woolf can look at the middle class patriarchal
Victorian family and the rules it allots to boys and girls, man and
woman.
• In a Crucial moment, which occurs in silence, Lily Briscoe decides
that she will not marry and that she will paint.
• It just makes that role an awkward fit.
• Lily Briscoe also understands what she is giving up because she is
half in love with Mrs. Ramsey or the ideal of Mrs. Ramsey.
• Painting Mrs.ramsey’s portrait, Lily paints what inspires her and
what inspires her and what condemns her as a woman artist.
