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Woolf's Orlando and Gender

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel is the focus of attention here. Gender is discussed in this context. Woolf seems to claim that gende...

Stories by Virginia Woolf, Their Themes and Symbolism

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Revisiting Childhood

In five pages the ways in which Woolf's novel represents recounting the author's own childhood through characterizations, events, ...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

This essay pertains to Woolf's novel and how the three main characters are presented within the context of the novel's main themes...

Woolf/A Room of One's Own

are locked out of the creative heart of society is addressed quite literally by Woolf in her first chapter. The narrator is medita...

Virginia Woolf and E.B. White: Essays

a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Stream o Consciousness

based on their age, "And that is being young" he thinks as he passes them (106). This begins a train of thoughts that lasts throu...

Literature and Reality

In twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Voice as a Literary Device

stone, but by the relation of human being to human being" (71). She then takes on the voice of an advocate for the rights of wome...

Feminism in the Life and Writings of Virginia Woolf

to resurrect and preserve (Gordon 4). Woolf, a manic-depressive, found herself constantly searching for approval...Battling with a...

Epiphany and Moment of Being in the Works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

"what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her, the fat lady in the cab . . . Did it matter that she must inevitably cease c...

Outsiders in Classic Literature

increased recognition and familiarity for the strangeness to be lost....

Contemporary Literature Essay Tutorial

In five pages this tutorial essay considers Virginia Woolf's use of stream of consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway, T.S. Eliot's free ve...

Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Literary Modernism

In 5 page this paper defines modernism and then critically applies the concept to T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' and 'Tradition an...

Duality and Death in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how duality and death are represented in the characterizations of Septimus Smith and Clariss...

Gender: “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf

that she is a woman, and the narrator states, "it may have been observed that Orlando hid her manuscripts when interrupted. Next, ...

Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

of feminism: "Feminism articulates political opposition to the subordination of women as women, whether that subordination is ascr...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

Woolf and Nancy: Interruption of Myth

community in Between the Acts fits with Nancys conceptualization of the interrupt of myth because Woolfs intention was to offer an...

Virginia Woolf: “Orlando”

as much more fluid and changeable than most people can accept or are comfortable with. The passage under consideration begins wit...

Relationships: Woolf and Dunbar

reader is not really sure about the couple until at one point the reader learns that the woman died "hundreds of years ago" and th...

A Hero in Print and Throughout Time

the path to order by bringing structure to the process of understanding. The classical hero was one who was brave, honest, pious ...

Commentary on Virginia Woolf's 'The Lady in the Looking Glass'

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall'

In five pages this paper analyzes the narrator's mind in this short story by Virginia Woolf. One source is cited in the bibliogra...

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, James Joyce's 'The Dead' and Gender

In five pages gender and how it influences relationships are examined within the context of these literary works. Four sources ar...

Virginia Woolf's Writings and the Agenda of Women's Rights

. . . for the perceived immorality of their personal lives" (McCoy & Harlan, 254). In addition to being extremely unconventional s...

Phyllis Bentley's 'Love and Money' and Virginia Woolf's 'The Legacy' Compared

on what his wife has written reveal details of his opinion regarding her. While granted Gilbert loved his wife, his attitude towar...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Virginia Woolf's Character

why a person acts the way he or she does, how one attributes moods, feelings and emotions, the way in which one interacts with ano...

Creative Essay on Virginia Woolf's 'Death of a Moth

I had two cats that had already voiced their opinion on the matter. No Dogs allowed was the agreement. And, Im certain that they f...

Virginia Woolf's Professions for Women

nothing. She is not arrogantly assuming she is a great success, but rather sucking the listener/reader into a position where they ...