Essays on Virginia Woolf
Throughout their time Virginia Woolf and Lucie Aubrac embodied different manifestations of women’s resistance in relation to the rise of totalitarian governments in Europe. This essay is based upon research and their evidence the crucial questions of: “what forms did resistance take for each woman and why?” and “what role did gender play in Woolf...
Mary Wollstonecraft is considered one of the founders of the feminist movement and philosophy. She wrote books for children, novels, history works, and in defence of the rights of both men and women alike. She was mostly famous for her book A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Published in 1792, she demands gender equality...
In both Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Great Gatsby the authors, Edward Albee and F. Scott Fitzgerald (respectively) explore the concept of disillusionment. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is set in 1962, in the midst of the Cold War, the tensions affect George and Martha’s personal battles, they create a mutually thought-out illusion...
Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ are both texts that present gender in similar ways but with varying effects. This is often through the use of characterisation, for example the contrast between traditional and unconventional gender roles. They also look at the theme of power and how that may lead...