Making specific reference to A room of One's own, Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen and one other text evaluate the ways in which language shapes and reflects culture and values.
Values, preoccupations and themes are all evident in literature through the use of literary techniques. However, other forms, such as film, allow, through cinematographic techniques, for these values, preoccupations and themes to also become evident. Virginia Woolf's extended essay, A room of One's Own, argues that females have been financially and socially limited in their ability to write, clearly portraying a patriarchal society, to which Woolf is preoccupied with changing. Weldon has an altered view of the role of women in society, and so has instead become preoccupied with how society does not value literature in her book, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen. Bennett Miller's Capote is a film that explores a writer's ethical responsibility, and how this affects the blend of fact and imagination in non-fiction.
MUNDARRA WELDON
MUNDARRA WELDONThroughout A Room of One's Own, Woolf posits her position on gender roles through the creation and characterization of three "Marys". Mary Carmichael, Mary Beton and Mary Seton all serve specific purpose in Woolf's own play on truth. Mary Carmichael is a fictional author, who's novel, Life's Adventures, to Woolf is revolutionary through the creation of a previously unimaginable relationship between two women. Woolf narration which leads to the revealing of her findings to her audience, is both sarcastic and wittingly rhetoric:"Do you promise me that behind that red curtain over there the figure of Sir Chartres Birton is not concealed? We are all women you assure me? Then I may tell you the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia...' Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the...