1. Name : Gohil Umaba .B
Roll No : 16
Email id: umabagohil123@gmail.com
Paper No: 9 Modernist Litreature
Topic : Feminism in “To The Lighthouse”
Submitted To : M.K Bhavnagar University,
Department Of English
3. ● Woolf was a english writer and one of the
modernist female writer of the 20th century...
● Central figure of the “bloomsbury group
● Virginia woolf novel “To The Lighthouse” is a
piece of litreature which belongs to literary
genere of modernism. lilly is a brilliant example
of modernism.
● Thought the history women have been locked in
a struggle to free themselves from the
boundries that seprates themselves from man.
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● As well as to explore such a feminist issues as
the necssity.or even desirability, of marraige for
women and difficulties for women in pursuing a
career in arts.
5. ● Showlater has divided the proof of evaluation in
three stages.they are
● 1)The feminine >1840-1880The feminine >1840-1880
during that period women wrote in an effort to
equal the intellectual achievements of the male
culture.
●
2)2)The feminist >1880-1990The feminist >1880-1990
women won the right to vote. Women writer began
to use litreature to dramatize the ordeals of wrong
womenhood.
6. 3)3) The female stages > ongoing since 1920The female stages > ongoing since 1920 ..
● Women rejecting both limitation and protest.
● Women show more indepedent attitudes.
● Women began to concentrate on the forms and
techniques of arts and litreature.
● Character of Mrs. Ramsay and lily briscoe.both
giving different polar areas of the women in the
novel. they are portrayed with stream of
conciousness technique.
8. Character of Mrs. Ramsay
● Mrs. Ramsey is the central character .she is
portrayedin image of flertility and softness
● Mrs. Ramsay is the idealize women type
according to victorian values.
● Mrs. Ramsay is the character who constantly
present not only as wordly pesence but also in
the mind of the other character.
● Her constant concern about small and basic
needs of family keeps her alive after her death
too.
9. ● In “ The window” Mrs.ramsay never compromises
herself . Here she is able masterfully to satisfy her
husband's desire for her to tell him .she loves him
without saying words.she finds so dificult to say.
This scene displays Mrs. Ramsay's ability to bring to
gether disparate things into whole.
11. Chracter of Lilly Briscoe
● Lily is partly as anew women.
● Lily as a role model for women. She defies the
patriarchy society.
● Lily ignores the patriarchal rules and the aims to
take her social role with her to becoming an
artist.
● Lily is srugglling female character.
● She represents an idealized feminist woman who
challanges male hegemony to achieve a sense of
individuality.
12. ● Her finished painting and epiphany at the end of
the novel serves to establish her role as a trulley
liberated female artist.
Conclusion:
The desire to break away from conventional female
cultural norms and stereotypes in order to achieve
autonomy can only be fully realized when she
experience the vision after the complrtition of her
painting at the end of the novel.
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