Percy, in his essay, writes about sovereignty, as the lost creature, and advices the readers, to explore oneself, and struggle to know the object to be known, whether it is oneself or other than oneself, materially or mystically. ... However, A Room of One's Own, thoughts are only a vehicle which Woolf uses, in contradistinction to Percy's mechanism of providing hypothetical examples, to write her essay about woman and fiction. ... In both, a struggle is involved because of the sole nature of sovereignty- to be free from influence of society or such facilities of control. The goal in...

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