Essays Tagged: "Virginia Woolf"

The Satire in Edward Albee's play "who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?"

Edward Albee's play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a drama exploring the anxieties of modern life. By personalizing aspects of the ... ow Albee achieves satire.Abrams's first definition of epic is the closest to which "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" adhere- it is about a serious subject. The seriousness of the play is developed thr ... ruggles are common to all.Unlike the sweeping grandeur on the epic, the setting of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is modest. It is ironic that in a quiet, conservative "New England college town" th ...

(3 pages) 89 0 4.8 Apr/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Summary of A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf and sexism in this century

In her book A Room of Ones Own, Virginia Woolf provides a graphic portrait of sexism in the early 1900s. Since then our society has ... job. In the 1900s women couldn't even have jobs and if they did they were very limited.I think that Virginia Woolf would feel proud and accomplished the comtemporary attitudes toward women if she were alive today.

(3 pages) 171 1 4.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Summary of A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf and sexism in this century

In her book A Room of Ones Own, Virginia Woolf provides a graphic portrait of sexism in the early 1900s. Since then our society has ... job. In the 1900s women couldn't even have jobs and if they did they were very limited.I think that Virginia Woolf would feel proud and accomplished the comtemporary attitudes toward women if she were alive today.

(3 pages) 98 0 3.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Comparative paper on Virginia Woolf's "The Years" and Rainer Rilke's "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge"

authors may write about a familiar topic but end up with two very different angles to their issues. Virginia Woolf in her novel The Years, and Rainer Maria Rilke in an excerpt from his work of fiction ...

(4 pages) 32 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

In what sense might Virginia Woolf's novel ' To The Lighthouse' be understood as a feminist text?

In what sense might Virginia Woolf's novel ' To The Lighthouse' be understood as a feminist text?When looking at To The ... ed by a woman.Perhaps, one of the most important running themes within the novel is self-deception, Virginia Woolf does not intervene on her characters, nor does she give objective views, their chains ... a feminist analysis of a women's situation of the female experience.BibliographyBarratt. Michelle. Virginia Woolf - On Women and Writing. (Women Within Fiction) (Professions For Women.) Published by ...

(10 pages) 278 1 4.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own Woolf writes about the struggles that women of her time faced in writing.

In the novel, A Room Of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf it seems implausible thatone could miss the theme behind her writing. Even just by re ...

(3 pages) 225 0 4.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

The Silenced Body: Institutionalization of gender and gender regimes

he female body of her self and identity.I will use, for my discussion, the novels Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, andFrankenstein, by Mary Shelley. Thorough the use of these novels I will convey the ...

(6 pages) 159 0 3.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

"Mrs dalloway" Virginia woolfs

o people may have very similar opinions of the society that created them. The English society which Virginia Woolf presents individuals that are uncannily similar. These two individuals carry the name ... that they are both dissatisfied. Their dissatisfaction emanates from society closing the doors toIn Virginia Woolf's book, Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith grow up under the ...

(3 pages) 100 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Gender Roles and Conflicts Expressed in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse".

Gender Roles and Conflicts Expressed in Virginia Woolf's To the LighthouseTime and time again, gender-conflict has continued to be a focal i ... hes beyond personal relationships to explore man's wider relation to the Universe" (McNichol 1). In Virginia Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse, the differences in male and female roles are a reoccurrin ...

(8 pages) 161 1 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The color imagery in "The Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf.

rs not only make life more vibrant, but they can also be linked to characteristics and emotions. In Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, color is frequently used to enhance the imagery and to better re ...

(2 pages) 109 3 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Importance of Time in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway".

Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is a modernist novel, which shows new techniques to express a differen ... beauty and the greatness of life considered in its simpler actions.BibliographyPrimary SourceWoolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. London: Penguin Classics, 2000Secondary SourcesRuotolo, Lucio. "Mrs Dalloway ... ondon: Penguin Classics, 2000Secondary SourcesRuotolo, Lucio. "Mrs Dalloway: The Unguarded Moment". Virginia Woolf REVALUATION AND CONTINUITY. Ed. University of California Press. London: 1980.

(16 pages) 170 0 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Three Tall Women.

language, of reading and being read, as a text, by other characters. Albee's plays, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Three Tall Women, show the obsession with language and its functions, both good ... omen, show the obsession with language and its functions, both good and terrifying. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is as much about censorship, the attempts to limit speech, as it is about playacting ...

(11 pages) 73 0 3.7 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"The hours" by Michael Cunningham.

The ripples of influence wash forward in time. From the ravaged, brilliant mind of Virginia Woolf in 1923, to the printed page in 1925, to the young, timid, unsteady hands of a Califo ... he screen, as inspired by Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel, The Hours, which was in turn inspired by Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.The film opens with Virginia Woolf's 1941 suicide. She places stones ... mple cake for her husband's birthday is a monumental task. So she slowly surrenders to the words of Virginia Woolf.A half-century later, across America, Clarissa Vaughan doesn't so much read about Mrs ...

(4 pages) 98 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The title is "Isn't It Romantic?" This essay compares the short stories "A Haunted House" by O. Henry and "The Gift of the Magi" by Virginia Woolf. This covers theme, setting, and mood.

ems, and articles have been written on the subject. Two such short stories are "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf and "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry. These two stories share commonalities and dif ...

(3 pages) 55 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Reaching Mrs. Brown: Interiotity and Typification in Virginia Woolf. This is essentially a study of VW's methods of characterisation.

Interiority and Typification'Character', wrote Arnold Bennett, 'is at the heart of the novel'; yet Virginia Woolf in her essay Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown responded that Bennett's attempts at characte ... nced by Susan and Jinny especially, and thought, as shown by all the characters in their monologues.Virginia Woolf does not rely exclusively upon type to display character in her writing, but creates ...

(13 pages) 101 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Hours - Film Analysis

ldIn his novel The Hours, Michael Cunningham weaves a dazzling fabric of intertextual references to Virginia Woolf's works as well as to her biography. In this essay, I shall partly yield to the acade ... rical intertexts such as the biographies he has used for his account of a single day in the life of Virginia Woolf and which he declares in "A Note on Sources" at the end of the novel (229-30), and hi ...

(48 pages) 364 3 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

A comparative study of the presentation of characters' mental states in Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Hours by Michael Cunningham.

I adumbrate to a study of insanity and suicide: the world seen bythe sane and insane side by side." Virginia Woolf's description ofher intentions for Mrs DallowayBy clarifying Mrs Dalloway as a story ... sis on the idea that insanity is not just a freak occurrence in the course of history. In contrast, Virginia Woolf with a personal history of mental instability asserts and maintains the difference to ...

(10 pages) 132 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Time and place in Virginia Woolf`s novel "Mrs Dalloway"

Virginia Woolf is one of the popular English modernist writers, whose works affect everybody. They d ... So, it may seem that in this novel there is depicted one day in people's lives. No. On the contrary Virginia Woolf has revealed the whole life of Clarissa, her view of life and thoughts about other pe ... ferent point of view. The main thing is that that occurs in characters` minds, not in surroundings. Virginia Woolf is interested in characters` mind, inner world. She depicts that through so called "s ...

(3 pages) 125 4 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The explanation of a work is always sought in the man or woman who produced it." (Roland Barthes) Why should we not look to authorial intention for meaning in literature?

nstead be on the text, 'It is language that speaks not the author.'3 In applying Barthes' theory to Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' (1927-28) and Jeanette Winterson's 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit'' (198 ... hould try not to make assumptions on the work before they have reached their judgement individually.Virginia Woolf believed that, 'No one will admit that he can possibly mistake a novel written by a w ...

(7 pages) 97 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Comparing Feminist Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison

Virginia Woolf and Toni MorrisonVirginia Woolf; a quiet feminist, one who was abused by her brothers ... to read. She uses her books to disguise her thoughts, and Pecola is a great example of this.Adeline Virginia Stephen, better known as Virginia Woolf was born on January 25th, 1882 in London. She was t ... , 1882 in London, Julia Duckworth Stephens gave birth to her third child; a baby girl named Adeline Virginia Stephen. She was the third of four children. When Virginia was born, she had a close relati ...

(14 pages) 163 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers