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Throughout the entire story you get to experience the mental processes of the characters and see how they make their judgments based on their gender. Females thought about emotion and living up to the standards set for them and males seemed to think very lowly of the women, repeatedly saying that they couldn't read or write or understand complex matters.
I think that Virginia Woolf wrote this book to show that women could indeed write and they could do it very well. All her female characters thought deeply about things that only men were supposed to think about and women could not. (Such as philosophy and the questioning of their roles in society.) She must have felt a lot of prejudice during that era for being a woman and she wanted to prove that women could think deep thoughts and shape their own identities just as men did. I think she was striving to make the world aware of a woman's social condition in hopes that society would change it's ways.
Virginia Woolf seemed objective, but one couldn't tell clearly what about because there was so much being addressed in only one short novel and she didn't list her sources so she left you wondering where all her ideas came from. If Woolf has a thesis statement I think it is that life is short and unfair and that daily life can be an extraordinary event if we look at it through everyone's point of view all at once.
This book gave me some new understanding of the period in that it showed that women were still being treated like dullards, even though Europe was claiming that it was civilized. This is important to know because it points out that Europe's claim was completely false because if you want to be truly civilized you need to accept all humans living in a society. This way all voices can be heard and everyone can be treated equally. Several times in the book people referred to other non-European peoples as savages, which I found quite inappropriate.
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