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. ... The photograph, "a crudely colored photograph "of your world as it appears to us who see it from the threshold of the private house; through the shadow of the veil that St. Paul still lays upon your eyes; from the bridge which connects the private house with the world of public life,"" must be taken from a different perspective, (Three Guineas 18). ... In The Years, also wri...

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In Virginia Woolf's modernist novel To the Lighthouse, she explores various themes, and the theme of female gender role is just one of them. ... She is the "angle in the house". ... (Woolf, 2000, p.13). ... Ramsay is too complex a character to simply be seen under the light of traditional Victorian women. ... (Woolf, 2000, p. 130). ...

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Paul Simon's The Sound of Silence A poem, like all other works of art, may appear as an inter-subjective truth, an intricate thread of images, a surreal yet realistic expression, and as a "creative fact- according to Virginia Woolf. ... In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestones Beneath a halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, That split the night And touched the Sound of Silence. ... A mild and soothing light was surrounding him before he turned, only to be "stabbed by the f...

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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. ... Virginia agrees to return to the house with him only if he agrees to discuss moving back to London with her. ... This event is also Virginia's response to these feelings. ...

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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. ... The thread of the Prime Minister throughout, the near fulfilling of Peter's prophecy concerning Clarissa's proposed marriage to Roger, and the characters of the doctors compared to the tragic plight of Septimus throw a critical light upon the social circle examined by Woolf. ... Woolf's comparison of the sane and insane as an advanced social commentary is superb. ... But He...

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Virginia Woolf, an English novelist and essayist, focused her works on feminism. ... Every time there would be guests or friends that would visit the house, she was required to go outside. ... While she was passing down the streets of Croydon, the violet loops of ribbon spangled in the electric light caught her attention. ...

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She is beating at his window in Wuthering Heights, a house situated at the top of a desolated hill, literally at the edge of the normal world: "Terror made me cruel, and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pelled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed clothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!' ...

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