To The Lighthouse
Essays

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…

This is a paper that looks at the book "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf, but it also examines her as a person and it takes a look at how this semi-autobiogrphiacal book can be viewed once one knows more about her life. The most imoortant piece of information is that she was sexually abused by a half brother early in life and that seemed to shape the rest of her life.

¶ … Virginia Woolf's 1927 book, To the Lighthouse. This is no way keeps it from being a marvelous work of literature - perhaps one of the most marvelous works of literature in which nearly nothing actually happens.

Setting is a predominant feature in Virginia Woolf'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…