1. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
The Photograph "Women Seeing the World Through a Different Len At the time Virginia Woolf wrote The Years and Three Guineas, there were many differences between men and women, one of which was education. ... Women allowed themselves to be played by history. ... In The Years, also written by Virginia Woolf, most of the women felt that they had to cater to men. ... However, Woolf said that secrecy was essential. ... She said that women must not allow themselves to be played by history. ...
In The Hours (film) and the novel, something that Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan have in common is their feeling of failure, depression and inadequacy. ... In The Hours, Virginia Woolf begins her day by making the decision not to have a proper breakfast. ... The pain seems to take over Virginia as a person. ... It is this that so prominently displays Virginia's feelings. ... This event is also Virginia's response to these feelings. ...
She had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air" (Woolf, 1996 P.5.) ... Woolf strived to illustrate the vain artificiality of Clarissa's life and her involvement in it. ... Woolf's comparison of the sane and insane as an advanced social commentary is superb. ... Young women usually have their hearts broken all the time in Shaw plays. ... Heartbreak House is Shaw's play about the war, even though the war is never mentioned. ...
The word "England" or "English" occurs six times in this poem. That's a lot for a poem that is only 14 lines! In this poem England is like a mother to the soldier; she gave birth to him, nourished him, made him who he is. But England is also immortal. Even though, in death, the soldier must leave En...
An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation's mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success. That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. Arra...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...