Essays on To the Lighthouse
I have selected Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Virginia Wolff’s To the Lighthouse. In regards to Oroonoko, the Royal Slave by female author Aphra Behn is the first humanitarian English novel and actively opposes Slavery in a time when it was culturally accepted. The role of any narrator regardless of the narration type used is,...
The domesticity in which women are found has a significant impact on their marginalisation both from a social and intellectual point of view. The puritan Victorian society and the inbuilt imposition of man’s authority conflicted with the postwar modern changes which were inflitrating. We see this kind of effect which Woolf draw out of Lily’s...
Abstract: This article examines the legacy of Virginia Woolf to the Spending of Mary Gordon. More than a response to Woolf’s vision of a monetary gift to facilitate the creativity of a woman, Gordon’s novel also engages To the Lighthouse in her portrayal of a woman painter approaching her talent. Nevertheless, the distinction between the...
