feministic study on Mrs. Ramsey and Lily Briscoe

1. Name: Brijal Oza
Roll no.: 21
Paper no.: 9, The Modernist Literature
Year: 2015 – 2017
Email ID: brijaloza1994@gmail.com
Submitted to: Dept. of English
M.K. Bhav. Uni.

2. Feministic study of Mrs. Ramsey and
Lily Briscoe

3. About Virginia Woolf
• English writer and one of
the modernist female writer
of the 20th century.
• In her essay “A Room of
One’s Own” in which there
she gave famous dictum.
• “A woman must have
money and a room of her
own if she is to write
fiction”.

4. Definition of Feminism:
“The movement of
feminism aimed to
establishing and
defending equal
political, social and
economic rights and
equal opportunities
for women”

5. Quotes of Virginia Woolf

6. Character of Mrs. Ramsey
• Mrs. Ramsey is the central
character.
• A woman belonging to the
Victorian age
• Portrayed in a image of fertility
and softness
• Totally different from Lily Briscoe
• Match maker and gives much
important to the marriage
• According to her all men and all
woman should definitely be
married

7. Character of Lily Briscoe
• Also a central character
• Portrays as a ‘New
Woman’
• Inspired by Woolf’s sister
‘Vanessa Bell – to be a
painter’
• Totally oppose from Mrs.
Ramsey
• But in some way she
wants to be like Mrs.
Ramsey

8. Feministic study of Mrs. Ramsey and Lily
Briscoe
• Woolf describe that
woman as utterly
unselfish who scarifies
herself daily.
• Mrs. Ramsey pays her
role as house wife
• Anti -hero of Woolf
• Idealized woman type
according to Victorian
values

9. Continue…• Woolf represents Lily as a
role model for women
• And defines the
patriarchal society
• Lily ignores the
patriarchal rules and her
aim to take social role
with her with becoming
an artist
• Struggling female artist

10. Continue….
• Woolf in the feministic criticism – considering woman’s
ability and necessity in male dominating society.
• Lily is idealized woman for Woolf
• Lily is one of the character who maintain their
existence by the end of the novel
• Woolf’s use of stream of consciousness technique gives
the reader a chance to observe mind of women of that
period.

11. Woolf reflects her
own pain in the
character of Mrs.
Ramsey
Woolf reflects her
own life in the
character of Lily as
modern woman

12. Thank You…