This document summarizes Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse" and analyzes the female characters. It introduces the main female characters - Mrs. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, Prue Ramsay, Rose Ramsay, Nancy Ramsay, and Cam Ramsay. It provides details on Mrs. Ramsay's central role in the family and her portrayal as a symbol of fertility. It also analyzes Lily Briscoe as an independent artist who struggles against social expectations as a middle-aged single woman in Victorian society. The document examines the feminist themes in the novel regarding marriage and a woman's ability to pursue a career in the arts.

1. Department of English
M.K.B.U.
Name:- Dave Mayuri p.
M.A. Sem- 3
Roll no:-13
Paper no:- 9 The modernist
literature Topic:-
characterisation of Mrs. Ramsay to
the light house in feminist theory.
submitted by:- Department of
English.

2. INTRODUCTION TO
THE LIGHT HOUSE
One of the most prominent
Literary figures of the 20
century
Woolf is widely admired for
her technical innovation in the
novel, most notably her
development of stream of
consciousness narrative.
In To The Lighthouse 1927.
Woolf sought to come to term
with her parents stifling
Victorian marriage and events
of her own childhood, as well
as to explore such feminist
issue as the necessity, or
even desirability of marriage
for woman and the difficulties
for woman in pursuing carrier
in the arts.

3. Female Character In To The
Lighthouse
 Mrs. Ramsay
 Lily Briscoe
 Prue Ramsay
 Rose Ramsay
 Nancy Ramsay
 Cam Ramsay

4. Introduction Of Female Character
 Mrs. Ramsay is the loving and hospitable
wife of Mr. Ramsay.
 Lily Briscoe a young unmarried painter
friend of the Ramsay.
 Prue Ramsay is oldest of the Ramsay’s
daughter.
 Rose Ramsay one of the Ramsay’s daughter.
 Nancy Ramsay is one of the Ramsay’s
daughter.
 Cam Ramsay is the Ramsay’s youngest
daughter.

5. Mrs. Ramsay
Mrs. Ramsay is the central character.
Mrs. Ramsay portrayal in image of fertility and softness.
Mrs. Ramsay is the character who is constantly present
not only as worldly presents but also in the mind of the
character.
Mrs. Ramsay holds the Ramsay family together as she
holds together every social contact she enters by her
charisma and instincts for putting people ease.
Mrs. Ramsay exalt in the beauty of the world and,
though she insist she is no thinker frequently reflects on
the nature of time and human experience.
Mrs. Ramsay is also, as Lily sees and artist who can
make out the flitting moment “Something permanent “.
Mrs. Ramsay is a good wife & creator of the comfort for
everyone.
Mrs. Ramsay failed to treat her chivalry.
She is means to satisfy his male ego, physical needs as
well as needs of the family.
Mrs. Ramsay ability to bring together disparate things
into a whole.
Beauty was not everything, beauty had this penalty-it
came to readily, come too completely.
Mrs. Ramsay quietly influence people to shape that she
want to them to take in the name off the greater ideas.

6. Lily Briscoe
 Lily Briscoe’s character who is
and independent in individual
creative artist as well as
sensible lady.
 The feministic view has only
one question that why cannot
women be allowed to be herself
why she not at the ease and
have to carefree for every
person’s minor needs, why
cant she cant comfort to feeling
the men in her life doesn’t she
needs that?
 Lily is unable to obtain and
empowering sense of female
libration until she has finished
the painting and epiphany at
the end of novel serves to
establish her role as a truly
liberated female artist.
 Woolf is keen to stress Lily’s
role as an outsider attempting
to analyze and comprehend her
precarious social predicament.
 Her status as a middle aged
women, who values are artistic
achievement over the prospect
of difficult to maintain against
the circumscribed expectations
of society.
 The pressure to conform to
specific female gender roles
weighs heavily upon her
conscious.

7.  Her personal independence from the negative influences of
male, hegemony is directly linked to the aesthetic
development as an artistic; does it is only after reaching a
satisfactory level of creative expression that the submerged
metaphor becomes most vivid.
 She is introduce though the perspective of Mrs. Ramsay sitting
in the openly transparent window of the cottage with James
her youngest son.
 They are both having their portrait painted by Lily who is
looking at them though the window from a position outside on
the lawn.
 Lily’s status is middle aged women who values artistic
achievement over the prospect of marriage becomes
increasingly difficult to maintain against the circumscribed
expectation of society.
 Her vision depends on balanced and synthesis how to bring
together disparate things in hegemony this mirror Woolf's
writing.
 Feminine artist vision.