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zeus
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Describe the relationship among some of the main characters of To the Lighthouse?

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Posted by zeus on Sunday March 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM and tagged with characters, relationship, to the lighthouse, woolf.

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  1. scdaniel Teacher
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    This is a very broad question, so I will do my best to point you in the right direction. At the time she was writing this novel, Woolf was reading a great deal of Freud, so the relationship among James and his mother and father is one that represents the Oedipal complex -- James adores his mother but hates his father for taking away her attention, so much so that he wishes he could kill his father. Only when James is older and his mother is dead does he seem to reconcile with his father, despite his best efforts to "resist" his father's "tyranny."

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    Posted by scdaniel on Saturday March 21, 2009 at 9:41 PM