Lighthouse
Setting is a predominant feature in Virginia oolf's The Lighthouse. In Chapter One, the author establishes the setting as the core feature of the novel. The titular lighthouse becomes a symbol, and it is also an indelible feature of the Isle of Skye landscape. In Chapter One, the author also introduces the readers to the protagonists of the novel and its supporting characters. The Ramsays, Mrs. And Mr. Ramsay, are entertaining guests and family members at their summer home. Chapter One begins with a view through the eyes of a child, James. James is the young son of the Ramsay's, and he is excited to see the lighthouse. "Since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future prospects…cloud what is actually at hand," (3). Here, James hears his mother's voice and it is clear…...
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Works Cited
Joyce, James. Ulysses. Digital edition.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Harcourt Brace.
Virginia olf and "To the Lighthouse"
Biographical Information
Virginia oolf is noted as one of the most influential female novelists of the twentieth century. She is often correlated to the American writer illa Cather not because they were raised similarly or for any other reason than the style of their writing and their early feminist approach to the craft. oolf, unlike Cather, was born to privilege, and was "ideally situated to appreciate and experiment with the art of writing" (Biography). Her father was a landed gentleman in England who was a pioneer mountain climber, historian and author. oolf's mother was at one time a model for painters, a nurse and a nurse educator. The family was well to do and her brothers were educated at Cambridge, the young women were all educated at home using the extensive library that existed on the estate (Biography).
oolf's very early life was one of play and…...
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Works Cited
Bacon, Crystal. "Virginia Woolf: Into the Night Nursery." Transformations 2.1 (1991): 39- 47. Print
Diment, Galya. The Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness: Goncharov, Woolf, and Joyce. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1994. Print.
Limanta, Liem Satya. "The Presentation of Gender Roles In and Outside Fiction, and the Rebellious Spirit of Women Artists in Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Room with a View'." K@ta 7.1 (2005): 54-70. Print.
Viginia Woolf's 1927 book, To the Lighthouse. This is no way keeps it fom being a mavelous wok of liteatue - pehaps one of the most mavelous woks of liteatue in which nealy nothing actually happens. In this book, as in Woolf's othe witings, the plot is geneated by the inne lives of the chaactes. Because of this, it is an ideal book in which to study the ways in which families inteact with each othe.
Woolf's poweful psychological potait of the ways in which people who ae intimate with each othe have leaned though yeas of elationships to "ead" (as well as to misead) the cues though which the chaactes communicate with each othe is conveyed with almost Jungian indiectness. She uses imagey, symbol, and metapho to tell us what he chaactes ae feeling aely speaking diectly to us as autho to eade.
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references more appropriate - the blue of the sky or of the sea perhaps, which would seem more likely to designate or suggest liberty, freedom, even sensuousness.
Even as Woolf is playing around with the color of blue and the language of flowers, she brings into play other metaphors that suggest conflicting imagery of chastity and sexual experience. There is, of course, the reference to Queen Victoria herself, an nearly perfect icon of these incompatible feminine ideals. The symbol of the repressive age named after her in which the legs of furniture had to be swathed so as not to excite prurient sexual interest and the legs of chickens and other fowl prepared to be eaten had to be similarly disguised one could hardly come up with a symbol more appropriate to the repression of sexuality. And yet as the mother of nine children, she must also be seen as a symbol of fecundity, of sexuality given its full reign. The reference to a woman who was "fifty at least" with eight children seems suspiciously like a reference to the queen.
There are other sets of contradictory images in this passage. There is that contradiction between freedom and confinement, the young girl with stars in her yes and the woman who is veiled (for veils are surely a symbol of both confinement and chastity). There is the image of running freely through a field, but countering this is the image of buds that have been broken and lambs that have fallen - "Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair." Both of these images - buds broken by carelessness before they could come into full flower and lambs that have been felled while still in their infancy - bespeak of the other side of freedom, which is irresponsibility.
We learn little directly about the characters in this book. This is not an O'Neill play in which the characters talk at great length about what in their past lives has brought them to this moment of torment. Rather we are left again and again with passages that express ambiguity and ambivalence. We understand that everyone other than Mr. Ramsay deserves, needs and gives love, but we also are led by the author to understand that nothing in constant in a family.
Everything in this world overshadowed by the lighthouse is in a change of flux. And every change - whether as dramatic as Mrs. Ramsay's death or as seemingly simple as Lily's finishing a painting - changes every other emotional vector.
Virginia Woolf to the Light House
Biography of the author
Virginia Woolf, the British author who made efforts towards making an original contribution to the structure of the novel, was an eminent writer of feminist essays, a critic writer in The Times Lierary Supplement and the prominent person in the Bloomsbury group. Virginia Woolf was born as the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Jackson Duckworth in London. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen was an eminent literary critic and her mother Julia Jackson Duckworth, belonged to the family of Duckworth Publishing. (Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) - in full Adeline Virginia Woolf, original surname Stephen) It was the second marriage for both of her parents as they were married earlier to other partners. Her father had earlier married to Thackeray, a daughter of a novelist and her mother had earlier married to Herbert Duckowrth, who was a barrister. Julia and Leslie Stephen in…...
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References
Contemporary Reviews of To the Lighthouse. Taken from Majumdar, Robin, and Allen
Ramsay's actions and words towards James about this matter are "caustic," and "dashed" his son's aspirations for going to the lighthouse. However, Mrs. Ramsay takes care to inspire the hopes of her son and to protect them, by stating that the following day's weather could actually involve the sun's "shining" and birds "singing," both of which are characteristics of permissible weather. The dichotomy of the perspectives presented by these characters is distinctly in alignment with traditional nurturing roles of mothers and disciplinary roles or those which prepare children for the vicissitudes of life that father's usually have. By presenting such a sharp distinction between the pair, oolf is subtly suggesting that a synthesis of these behaviors would allow for a true consummation of the totality of a person -- which is a concept explored within "A Room of One's Own."
Lastly, although the narration in "To the Lighthouse" is from…...
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Works Cited
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Ebooks @Adelaide. 1929. Web.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Light House. Ebooks@Adelaide. 1927. Web.
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standing at the lighthouse in a park in Mackinac City, shivering and cold in the dim August light. The lighthouse's grey walls tower above me like an immovable stone monument to the bleakness of the day. I peer out into the misty air, struggling to see through the fog that presses up to the thick, bruise-blue clouds, and across the choppy water.
Mackinac Bridge juts out in front of me, just as imposing and cold as the massive lighthouse above. I feel tiny, insignificant, about to be swallowed up by the greatness of concrete and stone that surround me.
Mackinac is impossibly long, five miles of concrete stretching out along the massive water where lakes Michigan and Huron meet in a quiet rush of grey water. Miles of grey cables stretch out above the bridge, like long spider arms desperately holding the mass of concrete above the dull water below. The…...
Daughters in literature requires a thorough analysis of gender roles and norms. The concept of daughter is directly linked to gender roles, as being a daughter entails specific social and familial responsibilities. Daughters' rights, roles, and responsibilities vis-a-vis their male siblings can therefore become a gendered lens, which is used to read literature. This is true even when the daughters in question are not protagonists. For example, Sonya in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is not a protagonist but her supportive role has a tremendous impact on main character Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. Likewise, no one of King Lear's three daughters is the play's protagonist but they nevertheless propel the plot of the play and are central to its outcome. Virginia oolf's To the Lighthouse barely features any of the Ramsay daughters, and yet there are ample textual references to the role of daughters in families and correspondingly, the role of…...
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Works Cited
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Edited by James Kinsley. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
Shakespeare. William. King Lear. Edited by Stephen Orgel. New York, N.Y: Penguin Books, 1999.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. [1981], c1955.
Carollo, Caterina; Lo Presti, Rosalia & Caimi, Gregorino. "Wine, Diet and Arterial Hypertension." Angiology 58, no. 1 (Feb/Mar 2007): 92-96. Database online: Available from Academic Search Premier, ISSN: 0003-3197.
Foodservice in the United States." (July 2007): 1-32. Database online: Available from Marketline.
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Yang, Sarah. Setting the Recipe Straight: Forget Pasta if…...
Virginia Woolf and Her Works as Mediums of Feminism
Virginia Woolf was among the rare writers who have put their talents and ideologies into writings, particularly as a patron of equality to women. Considered as one of the founders of feminism, there were quite a number of literary works that show Woolf's passion for promoting feminism. Some of this includes the following literary masterpieces.
To the Lighthouse
A Room on One's Own (1929)
Three Guineas (1938)
Women and Fiction (1929)
Professions for Women (1929)
Much of Woolf's literatures depicted her strict criticism on how the society put little importance to the female gender. Also, she showed in the context of her works how prominent the female gender can play important roles in the society, both socially and politically. Much of Woolf's works have in fact depicted political thoughts that have endeared the hearts and minds of many readers.
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Her affairs with Rodolphe and Leon bring her the type of intimacy she longs for even though they cause her much pain. Emma saw her affair with Rodolphe as vengeful because so much of her life felt like it was void of love. e are that she was "becoming a part of her own imaginings, finding the long dream of her youth come true as she surveyed herself in that amorous role she coveted" (Flaubert 175). She did not feel guilt; in fact, she "savored" (175) her relationship with Rodolphe and was without "remorse, disquiet or distress" (175). Emma is overwhelmed with emotions when it comes to Rodolphe and she did not know if she "regretted yielding to him, or whether she didn't rather to aspire to love him more . . . It was not an attachment but a continual excitement" (183). Here we see that she is…...
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Works Cited
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Alan Russell, trans. New York: Penguin Classics. 1950.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. 1955.
The earliest divisions of the temple still standing are the barque chapels, just in the rear the first pylon. They were constructed by Hatshepsut, and appropriated by Tuthmosis III. The central division of the temple, the colonnade and the sun court were constructed by Amenhotep III, and a later on addition by Rameses II, who constructed the entry pylon, and the two obelisks connected the Hatshepsut structures with the core temple. To the back of the temple are chapels constructed by Tuthmosis III, and Alexander. During the Roman age, the temple and its environment were a legionary fortress and the residence of the Roman government in the region (Johnson, 1988).
There was a girdle wall constructed around the temple that was made up of self-sufficient massifs of sun-dried brick adjoining at their ends, constructed of courses set on a triple arrangement that ran concave horizontal concave. The gate through which one…...
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Works Cited
"Ancient Babylonia - the Ishtar Gate."n.d., viewed 14 November 2010,
"Ancient Egypt Brought to Life With Virtual Model of Historic Temple Complex." 2009, viewed 14 November 2010,
"Babylon and the Ishtar Gate." 2010, viewed 14 November,
Andrews, Mark. 2010. "Luxor Temple of Thebes in Egypt," viewed 14 November 2010,
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Considering the Total Cost of Ownership -- TCO Vega's product offer a low TCO as their IT products recover the average cost of $30,000 for installation since it reduces the $1,250 per hour helicopter-assisted maintenance. The computer-managed systems have to be fail-proof as any type of false call could cost up to $3,500. This system manufactured by Vega uses the interactive technology capable of permitting technicians to switch lights on or off from a remote location. Vega enjoys economies of scale as it has…...
Cultural Event
The Dallas Museum of Art has several temporary exhibitions on display now. One is called "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties." Another related but separate exhibition is called "Texas in the Twenties: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from Lone Star Collections." Because both special exhibitions focus on a specific point in time in American and Texan history, it was helpful to view both together on the same day. I went on opening day of both exhibitions, which was on Sunday March 4, 2012. There was a small line to get in, but the space inside the museum was arranged so that it did not feel crowded. The museum published a brochure that explained each exhibition, why it was on display at that time at the museum, and what the exhibition meant in the context of modern American art.
The "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties" and the…...
Woolf / Women in Violence and War
The current paper deals with the use of stream of consciousness and narrative technique by Virginia Wolf. The author has discussed how Woolf comes and goes in time and space to reveal her inside feelings, and why she used them especially in time of war and domestic violence.
Much has been written about Woolf's use of the stream-of-consciousness technique used widely by other Modernist writers of her time such as DH Lawrance and James Joyce. Stream of Consciousness is the technique use by Woolf and she is considered the pioneer of this technique. The stream of thought was first proposed by William James, Harvard Professor of Psychology in 1890.
Argumentation
In a diary entry that Woolf wrote on the 23 of February in 1926, she compares the writing process she went through while writing Mrs. Dalloway with the process she experienced while writing To the Lighthouse:
"I am…...
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References
Bakhtin, Mikhail.M.. Art and Answerability. Eds. Michael Holquist and Vadim Liapunov. Trans. And notes, Vadim Liapunov. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. Print.
James, William. Different Times of Thought" Principles of Psychology. 260. Print
Herbert, Christopher. Mrs. Dalloway, the Dictator, and the Relativity Paradox. Novel. 35.1 (Fall 2001): Duke University Press. 104-124. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 April 2010.
Mathis, Mary Shirlene, Ph.D., ?War/narrative/identity: Uses of Virginia Woolf's modernism. Dissertation. The University of Texas. 1995. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 April 2010.
The Laingian analysis of alienation in Woolfs works, such as Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, reveals how societal norms and expectations contribute to feelings of isolation and detachment in her characters.
By examining the themes of alienation in du Mauriers Rebecca and The Birds, we can see how the author explores the psychological effects of estrangement and disconnection from oneself and others.
Woolfs portrayal of alienation in her female characters reflects the restrictions placed on women in society during the early 20th century, highlighting the struggle for autonomy and individuality.
Du Mauriers use of gothic elements and psychological suspense....
The Power of Love and Redemption in William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" The Complexity of Heroism in Homer's "The Iliad" The Role of Fate and Free Will in Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" The Nature of Madness in Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" The Search for Meaning in Albert Camus' "The Stranger"
Analyzing Literary Characters and Perspectives:
Hamlet's Tragic Flaw and its Consequences The Evolution of Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" The Unreliable Narrator in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" The Relationship between Dorian Gray and Lord Henry Wotton in Oscar....
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