The document discusses Virginia Woolf and her modernist novel To the Lighthouse. It provides background on Woolf's life experiences, including her childhood in an intellectual household and several mental breakdowns brought on by deaths in her family. It describes stream of consciousness as a literary technique used by Woolf involving the continuous flow of a character's mental processes without a coherent structure. Key characters from To the Lighthouse like Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, and Lily Briscoe are outlined. The novel is divided into three sections spanning over a decade and focuses on the Ramsay family and their attempts to visit a nearby lighthouse.

2.  In the literary sense,stream of
consciousness is a special style of
interior monologue.
 A mode of narration that involves the
full spectrum and continuous flow of a
character’s mental process

3.  It is literary technique in modernism
 Not always has a coherent structure.
 The plot lines weaves in and out of
time and place (non-linear)

4. • It contains thought, memories,
expectations, and feelings.
• It is diffrent than the dramatic
monologue.

6.  A British novelist ,
feminist essayist, critic, and a
central figure of the Bloomsbury
group.
Modernist features in her works
• Stream of the consciousness
• Interior monologue
•Non-linear
•Psychological problems on the
characters.

7. Her father Lislie Stephen was an
Eminet Victorian man of letter.
 She grew up in literary and intellectual atmosphere with free access to her
father’s libreray.
Childhood experiences of death and sexual abuse led to
depression.
Her mother when
she was 13
Her stepbrothers

8. She suffered from 4 mental
breakdowns:
 Her first breakdown in 13 was
in 1895, when her mother had
died.
 In 1897, her step-sister
Stella's death. Virginia had her
second breakdown.
 The death of her father on
1904 - she was 22.
Her brother Toby died in 1906.

9. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf (1880-1969), a
literary editor set up a publishing co., Hogart
House.

12. Mrs Ramsay
A beautiful and loving woman. She is devoted to her
family and a loving wife, struggling with her husband
moodand selfishness. Alos she is a good hostess
trying to entertain all the guests.
Mr. Ramsay
Rational man and a philosopher. He is in search of
truth and greatness. He worrys of not achieving his
aims. Some time he is harsh and selfish.

13. Lily Briscoe
A young, unmarried painter friend of
the Ramsays. She loves Mrs
Ramsay and she felt empty after
Mrs Ramsay death. She was
painting from the begining of the
novel until the end.
James Ramsay
The youngest Ramsay child, James
is six years old when the book
begins. He adores his mother and is
violently resentful of his father. He
enjoys cutting images out of
magazines and wants desperately
to go to the Lighthouse when he is
young.

14. This novel divided into three sections:
The window, which takes place during
asummer afternoon and evening in a
summerhome on the Isle of Skye in
Hebrides.
Time Passes, which covers about ten
years.
The Lighthouse, which lasts only one
day.

15. The lighthouse
It stands alone and tall in both light and darkness
and it, along with its beacon, is a focal point which
Symbolizes strength,stability, guidance and safe
harbor; it is Spiritual hermit guiding all those who
are traveling by sea

16. The boar’s skull
The presence of the skull acts as a disturbing
reminder that death is always at hand, even
during life’s most blissful moments. Mrs.
Ramsay’s covering it with her shawl represents
her desire to preserve life.
And it shows the death of several characters even
Mrs. Ramsay.