Art as a preservation with special reference

1. PAPER NO:-9
• Name: Ravji Jalondhara
• Roll No:28
• Enrollment No:2069108420180024
• Paper No: 11 (Modern Literature)
• Topic: Art as a means of preservation, with special reference of Lily Briscoe in To The
Lighthouse.
• Email Id: ravjijalandhara@gmail.com
• Submitted to: Department of English MKBU

2. ABOUT VIRGINIA WOOLF
• Virginia Woolf was a British writer considered one of the most important 20th
century.
• Woolf is one of the greatest twentieth century novelist and short story writer.

3. STYLE OF WRITING
• Her writing find the meaning of her own existence.
• Her works examine the structure of human life.
• Addresses relationship to the experience of time.

4. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
• To The Lighthouse does not have a traditional plot but consist of a series of experiences, memories, emotions
and feelings explained by symbol. This novel is divided into three sections.
• 1) The Window
• Take place in the space of one day and introduce
all characters, settings, conflicts (WW1).
• 2) Time Passes
• Covers a ten years period of time in the middle of the
novel
• 3) The Lighthouse
• Covers the returns of the summer home after ten years
many of the original characters resurface.

5. LILY BRISCOE
• Young and unmarried woman and friend of Mr. Ramsay. Independent devoted
artist, serious and deep thinker. Quite express her emotions threw paintings.
• Lily begins portraits of Mrs. Ramsay at the beginning of the novel but still in the end
of the novel she was unable to complete. She undergoes with drastic transformation
in the novel.
• Why she paints...
• She loves painting
• Wishes to explore an unconventional perception of the world
• Serves as a vehicle of personal expression

6. A WOMAN ARTIST
• Lily’s status as middle aged woman, who values artistic achievement over the
prospect of marriage becomes increasingly difficult to maintain against the
circumscribed expectation of society.

7. ART AS A MEANS OF PRESERVATION
• Art is perhaps, the only hope of surety in a world destined and determined to
change. For while mourning Mrs. Ramsay’s death and painting on the lawn, Lily
reflects that “nothing stays, all changes but not words , not paint.”
• Lily’s painting represents a struggle against gender convention, represented by
Charles Tansley’s statement that women can’t paint or write.

8. CONTINUE...
• The painting also represents dedication to a feminine artistic vision, expressed
through Lily’s anxiety over showing it to William Bankes.
• In deciding that completing the painting regardless of what happens to it is the
most important things, Lily makes the choice to establish her own artistic voice.

9. IMAGE & SYMBOL
• The Canvas:
• An experimental landscape for expression.
• She saw the colour burning on a framework of steel, the light of a butterfly’s wing lying upon the arches of a
cathedral.
• A surface on which Lily can create her own world.
• The Brush:
• A vehicle of expression for Lily
• Lily’s voice and inner thoughts flow from her brush,
• She could not show him what she wished to make, of it could not see it even herself, without a brush in her
hand.
• Ironic: The Brush is a tool of expression yet she hesitates to reveal the creation of her brush to others...

10. THE USE OF COLOURS
• White: The absence of colours symbolizes the uncolourful meaning of science and
astract thought.
• Red & Brown: Appear to be colours of egotism.
• Blue & Green: Are the colours of impersonality.
• Yellow: Puritan of everything and logical mental activity.

11. CONCLUSION
• So we can say that the novel is highly adventurous in term of human consciousness.
According to Woolf successful novelist is that he should life, spirit, truth or reality.
The novel is new spirit of awareness. The novelist tried to convey her reader a very
sensation of living experience of life as it is lived.

12. RESOURCES
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf
• https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/drashtimehtab01011993/to-the-lighthouse-
art-as-a-means-of-preservation?from_m_app=android