Essays on To The Lighthouse

Vrignia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

In To The Lighthouse, Woolf provides an important perspective of consciousness, grief, and memory. The initial part of the book, that is, “The Window” touches on the relationship of the characters and their surroundings. “Time Passes” is the second section of the book and it is arguably the most informative portion of the book as the narrator discusses the aspect of feeling and absence from the perspective of Ramsay’s house. This portion causes rapid acceleration of the events and the narrative in general as one witnesses the elapse of about ten years within about twenty pages. Within this ...

English literature

The 19th and early 20th century had to face a reality characterized by social, political and economic issues. Furthermore the World War One dramatically changed the already complex and troubled frame which gave birth to the Modernism. Indeed during the 19th century the traditional Victorian society turned itself into a modern and industrialized society, where cities were growing fast and the old ethical and religious values were rejected. This massive change also involved all the traditional forms of art, literature, architecture, philosophy, science and even all the aspects of the everyday lives. Salient of the Modernism Era is the ...

The modern society places huge expectations of conformity on the individual, forcing them to question their identity and place in the society. Parental presence and acceptance, class, income, race and physical appearance become important in how well individuals get accustomed to the often rigid demands of the society they live in. Philosophers, poets and novelists throughout history have written about the feeling of abandonment by a parental figure or a class and the resultant agony it brings to their protagonists. Werther in The Sorrows of Young Werther, the creature in Frankenstein, Lily Briscoe in To The Lighthouse and Bartleby ...