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The Feminist view is pervasive throughout Woolf's work. The...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:44:53 PST

The Feminist view is pervasive throughout Woolf's work. The fundamental premise calls for a space where women are able to construct their own literary identities. This idea is developed in a manner that analyzes historical depiction of women, arguing that it is impossible for women to be perceived as equal when historical texts have relegated women to peripheral roles. The work concludes with the assertion that gender is not something to...

How the feminist view applied in A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf?

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:29:18 PST

How the feminist view applied in A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf?

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What are two things a woman needs to write successfully, according to...

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:18:50 PST

What are two things a woman needs to write successfully, according to Virginia Woolf in Chapter 3 of "A Room of One's Own"?

The previous post did a very nice job in articulating the meaning of the...

Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:03:17 PST

The previous post did a very nice job in articulating the meaning of the title of Woolf's work. At the same time, the implications of "having a room of one's own" is quite profound. At some level, all groups that have experienced social marginalization have stressed this idea as being elemental to rectifying the wrong of the silence of voices. Groups or individuals who face a level of isolation can only become an effective part of the...

Of course you know that A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by...

Sat, 3 Oct 2009 00:39:05 PST

Of course you know that A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Wolf and was based on a series of lectures she delivered at two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. This essay is on women as both writers of fiction and as characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction." Since this literary work, many people use this phrase "a room of one's own" to...

Comment on the title A Room of One's Own.

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 23:38:47 PST

It's an essay topic.

In contrast to Virginia Woolf's society, women in contemporary America...

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:50:14 PST

In contrast to Virginia Woolf's society, women in contemporary America have no restrictions upon them regarding careers. In the military, for instance, they can even have positions in combat when heretofore this was not the case. Women in law enforcement, also, are not prohibited in any way from taking any position. In fact, caucasian women have the advantage over caucasian men as they can qualify for minority status. According to a...

In terms of the work, I think Woolf is seeking to articulate the noition...

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:32:52 PST

In terms of the work, I think Woolf is seeking to articulate the noition that the self empowerment of women is a critical element in helping to create a sense of gender equity. It seems that the re-appropriation of voice is of critical importance to Woolf. In order for this to happen, women have to find a spiritual or psychological "room of one's own," where they have the ability to freely create, reflect, and establish their own sense of...

It is quite true that traditionally the roles of men and women in...

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:03:19 PST

It is quite true that traditionally the roles of men and women in society were segregated quite clearly. These division of role between men and women was a part of the general pattern of division of labour which has been a great blessing and help in technological and human progress. Unfortunately the nature of division of labour between men and women became too rigid and continued to persist when it was no longer appropriate. The in ital...

I think women are just as a capable as men are in doin anything....

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:36:00 PST

I think women are just as a capable as men are in doin anything....

Do you feel that society today places limitations on what women are...

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:42:19 PST

Do you feel that society today places limitations on what women are capable of? Why or why not?

Part of what makes Woolf's work so fascinatingly powerful is the...

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:34:16 PST

Part of what makes Woolf's work so fascinatingly powerful is the openness of her demands and clarity of her conviction. This could be no more evident in her assertions behind why she claims women will only be able to write their own works when they are in a "a room of one' s own." This is a fairly compelling idea in Woolf's work as she outlines the women's place of intellectual and literary history. The argument she seems to be making is...

Why Does Virginia Woolf Says That Women Will Be Able To Write Only When...

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:02:58 PST

Why Does Virginia Woolf Says That Women Will Be Able To Write Only When They Have A Room Of One's Own?

In Chapter Three, Woolf talks about circumstances that prevent women...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:16:04 PST

In Chapter Three, Woolf talks about circumstances that prevent women from being able to access and express their artistic genius: distractions and indifference. A woman's role, by nature, is full of distractions, among them spouses, children, and homes to care for, and because society expected women to focus only on those things, there was a certain element of not being taken seriously when undertaking an artistic endeavor. Additionally,...

What are two things a woman needs to write successfully, according to...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:11:18 PST

What are two things a woman needs to write successfully, according to Virginia Woolf in Chapter 3 of A Room of One's Own?

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the...

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:02:27 PST

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man twice its natural

I once read that the purpose of ALL writing is to have an effect on the...

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 19:56:22 PST

I once read that the purpose of ALL writing is to have an effect on the reader. How can an author do that without having passion and emotion for his work and in his work (or her work).

I don't think you can write good literature without emotion as emotion...

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 19:18:07 PST

I don't think you can write good literature without emotion as emotion equates to passion. How can one write well without some type of passion about the subject whether it is derived from anger or love or hate or even fear. What might be an issue if the level of emotion is so high that the writer loses perspective. If the writer loses perspective then it may create flaws in the writing or be too slanted or opinionated that it may disinterest...

Although it's almost thirty years old, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman...

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:37:08 PST

Although it's almost thirty years old, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic addresses the issue of the angry female author and how this anger plays out in their texts. They do mention "The Yellow Wallpaper," Woolf, and even Frankenstein, but their approach seems to work the best on Jane Eyre. They propose that Bertha Mason (the madwoman of their title) is not only a vehicle for Jane's unexpressed anger, but also that she is...