Virginia Woolf attaches great importance to this phenomenon in her novel Mrs. ... Being published in 1925, Virginia Woolf´s novel Mrs. ... For instance, Virginia Woolf did so with the narrative style in order to achieve the earlier mentioned phenomenon, namely to put the reader in a situation related to real life. ... Virginia Woolf described this process as follows: "I dig beautiful caves behind my characters". The caves are the characters´ inside of the mind which is only hard to assess for the reader, so the tunnels serve insofar as they shed some light upon the cave. ...

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The Photograph "Women Seeing the World Through a Different Len At the time Virginia Woolf wrote The Years and Three Guineas, there were many differences between men and women, one of which was education. ... The photograph, "a crudely colored photograph "of your world as it appears to us who see it from the threshold of the private house; through the shadow of the veil that St. Paul still lays upon your eyes; from the bridge which connects the private house with the world of public life,"" must be taken from a different perspective, (Three Guineas 18). ... In The Years, also wri...

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In Virginia Woolf's modernist novel To the Lighthouse, she explores various themes, and the theme of female gender role is just one of them. ... She is the "angle in the house". ... (Woolf, 2000, p.13). ... Ramsay is too complex a character to simply be seen under the light of traditional Victorian women. ... (Woolf, 2000, p. 130). ...

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Paul Simon's The Sound of Silence A poem, like all other works of art, may appear as an inter-subjective truth, an intricate thread of images, a surreal yet realistic expression, and as a "creative fact- according to Virginia Woolf. ... In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestones Beneath a halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, That split the night And touched the Sound of Silence. ... A mild and soothing light was surrounding him before he turned, only to be "stabbed by the f...

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A quote from the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, which sheds an interesting light on the contemporary issues that rarely consider gender inequality as a possible cause or potential solution. That is not to say that tremendous progress has not been made, however, after reading the works of writers such as John Stuart Mill and Virginia Woolf, the underlying limitations that some women are faced with have become much more obvious. ... We do not live in a society where forty hours of work by the man of the house provides enough to cover household expenses, and offering ...

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In The Hours (film) and the novel, something that Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan have in common is their feeling of failure, depression and inadequacy. ... In The Hours, Virginia Woolf begins her day by making the decision not to have a proper breakfast. ... The pain seems to take over Virginia as a person. ... Virginia agrees to return to the house with him only if he agrees to discuss moving back to London with her. ... This event is also Virginia's response to these feelings. ...

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She had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air" (Woolf, 1996 P.5.) ... Woolf strived to illustrate the vain artificiality of Clarissa's life and her involvement in it. ... The thread of the Prime Minister throughout, the near fulfilling of Peter's prophecy concerning Clarissa's proposed marriage to Roger, and the characters of the doctors compared to the tragic plight of Septimus throw a critical light upon the social circle examined by Woolf. ... Woolf's comparison of the sane and insane as an advanced social commentary is superb. ... But He...

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Virginia Woolf, an English novelist and essayist, focused her works on feminism. ... Every time there would be guests or friends that would visit the house, she was required to go outside. ... While she was passing down the streets of Croydon, the violet loops of ribbon spangled in the electric light caught her attention. ...

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She is beating at his window in Wuthering Heights, a house situated at the top of a desolated hill, literally at the edge of the normal world: "Terror made me cruel, and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pelled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed clothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!' ...

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An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation's mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success. That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. Arra...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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