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- 1. FEMINIST APPROACH IN“ TO THE LIGHTHOUSE” AND “ A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN” BY VIRGINIA WOOLF Name – Megha B Trivedi Course – M.A. English Sem – 3 Batch – 2016-2018 Enrolment No – 2069108420170030 Submitted to – Smt. S.B.Gardi Department of English, MK Bhavnagar University Email ID – meghatrivedi666@gmail.com Roll No – 18 Paper No – 9 The Modernist Literature
- 2. FEMINISM AS ATERM Feminism is a theory of the political, Economical and Social equality of the sexes and organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interest. 1) Simone De Beauvoir (1908) “ The second sex” (1949) 2) Helene Cixous (1938) 3) Elaine Showalter (1941) 4) Virginia Woolf “ To The Lighthouse” “ A room of one’s own” (1929)
- 3. FEMINIST – VIRGINIAWOOLF ( 1882 – 1941) Born – in London Brought up and educated at home 1995 – began writing professionally 1912 – married with Leonard Woolf Considered a leading modernist Central figure of Bloomsbury group of intellectual Greatest innovators in English language
- 4. CONTINUE…. - Stream ofconsciousness - Underlying psychological / emotional motives of characters - Fractured narrative and chronology 1941 – Committed suicide by drowning herself near her home in Rodmell
- 5. A ROOM OFONE’S OWN It is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf First published on 24 October 1929 This essay based on series of lectures she delivered at Newnham Collage and Griton College , two women’s colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928 Series of lectures titled “ Women and Fiction”, which was published in Forum March 1929. Essay seen as a Feminist text. “ Feminist Bible”
- 6. CONTINUE… Tries toexplain the reason why there had been so few women writers up to then. According to her views, women lacked her own space and independence She starts the essay with “BUT” She rejects the traditional “I” that represent the patriarchal discourse and she speaks through several person : Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Hamilton and Mary Carmichael, all of them fictitious In the first chapter - Hypothesis about what women need to be able to write : money and a room of their own
- 7. CONTINUE… In chaptertwo – effect of poverty on the writing of fiction, men’s anger against women In chapter three – contrast between the constant presence of women as character in the fiction written by men. Why women didn’t access to the literary world. Gave the example of fictional sister of Shakespeare, Judith Shakespeare. Judith, who had as much talent as he did. In chapter four – She said so why is it that so many of these works by women were novels? She states the need of tradition, apart from social recognition and material condition to learn the craft and master it. 1) Charlotte Bronte 2) Jane Austen
- 8. CONTINUE… In chapterfive she talked on how women writers wrote and how male writers wrote about women. Women must not write like a men neither in theme nor in form. Women’s writing is always feminine. In chapter six she talks about ideal state of mind of men and women, as two faced mind with masculine and feminine part. she demonstrate through all essay that money and space are linked to fictional writing . Why was one sex so prosperous and other so poor?
- 9. A ROOM OFONE’S OWN AND TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Lily Briscoe – Young single painter, as a “ New women”, “ Ideal Women” Mrs. Ramsay – “ Angel of the House”, “Victorian mother”, “Traditional women” Mr. Ramsay – depend on women Education – Charles Tansly – Young philosopher, Mr. Ramsay – Philosopher and professor , Mrs. Ramsay and her daughters not educated Symbols – Window – Female Lighthouse - Male Fisherman’s story Gave the important – “ Angel out of house”.
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- 11. “ WOMEN CAN’TWRITE, WOMEN CAN’T PAINT”