Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouss'"

Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouss"

''To the Lighthouss" is a Novel by Virginia woolf, first published in 1927. She was an English writer and one of the best modrenist 20th century Author and poineer.

1. The Vahog out 1915.
2. A Room Of One's Own 1929.

• About Novel:-

            'To The Lighthouse" was devided in  three part...

1. The Window

2. Time Passes

3. The Lighthouse.

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi- transparent envelole surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end"

1. How can you explain that 'what' Virginia Woolf wanted to say (for example, the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, the struggle of a female artist against the values of middle/upper class society etc) can only be said in the way she has said? (Key: The 'How' of the narrative technique is to be discussed along with features of Stream of Consciousness technique which helps Woolf to put in effective manner what she experienced in abstractions.)

   
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      Mrs. Ramasay is protagonist and Narrator  anonymous. Tone is elegiac. Ex.....1 "Ki and Ka" (Son told that like mother.) 2. John Goldsworthy 'Rivers and Tides' (Example of art.).

1. Do you agree: "The novel is both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay"? (Key: Take some clues from the painting of Mrs Ramsay drawn by Lily Briscoe and the article by Andre Viola and Glenn Pedersen. Can we read Mrs. R in context of the idea of Ideal Indian Woman - Karyeshu dasi, Karaneshu manthri; Bhojeshu mata, Shayaneshu rambha; Kshamayeshu dharithri, Roopeshu lakshmi; Satkarma yukta, Kuladharma pathni. )

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