1. We can say that Virginia Woolf has thrown some lights on the serious topic like human relations. The subconscious mind and its process as well as how it plays the vital role in relations presented here through stream of consciousness technique. Lily Briscoe is the painter who is living with Mrs. Ramsay and family. Mrs. Ramsay is the lady devoted to the family. Character contrast and comparison questions the values of society. Stream of consciousness is the technique which is allowing us to peep into one’s mind. The time and action are freeze for a while and what is that while in the mind of someone that is shown by using the technique. Woolf can give enough justice to the character of Lily Briscoe as she herself is the writer when no female writers were writing. Her struggle is reflected through the Lily’s character.
2. Yes of course this novel has proved tribute to many women and also Woolf’s mother who in those times devote herself to nurture the family with values and warmth. Mrs. Ramsay is the character who proved right the Indian Sanskrit shloka ‘Karyeshu dasi, Karaneshu manthri;
Bhojeshu mata, Shayaneshu rambha;
Kshamayeshu dharithri, Roopeshu lakshmi;
Satkarma yukta, Kuladharma pathni’ The painting by Lily Briscoe has also portrayed Mrs. Ramsay as the pillar of the family as she stands by the window. Window is the symbol of the fresh feelings; as window keeps ventilating the room so Mrs. Ramsay keeps the family lively and warm.
3. The Light house is the symbol used for Mrs Ramsay. She is standing straight in the storms of emotions and minor clashes among family members as light house is standing and guiding force for the voyager. Lily sometimes carries the feelings of writer. Woolf had overcome her own struggle with society as well as her inner self, which brought stoicism. When Lily paints, she remembers Mrs Ramsay.
4. Here Woolf has used Oedipus myth and myth of Rhea and other Goddesses. The light house is relevant to the human phallic symbol but here it stands for Mrs Ramsay. She is the live force, creative force of the Ramsay family. Exalting the feminine principle in life over the masculine, Virginia Woolf built her novel around a character embodying the life-giving role of the female. In opposition, she shows the male, both in the father and son aspect, as death-bearing?arid, sterile, hateful, and "fatal" . The female principle in life is exalted in all its aspects of love which are opposed to the harsh and critical aspects of the male principle, of fertility with its pattern of triumph over death in rebirth. What, then, becomes of the single obvious central symbol, the Lighthouse.
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2. Yes of course this novel has proved tribute to many women and also Woolf’s mother who in those times devote herself to nurture the family with values and warmth. Mrs. Ramsay is the character who proved right the Indian Sanskrit shloka ‘Karyeshu dasi, Karaneshu manthri;
Bhojeshu mata, Shayaneshu rambha;
Kshamayeshu dharithri, Roopeshu lakshmi;
Satkarma yukta, Kuladharma pathni’ The painting by Lily Briscoe has also portrayed Mrs. Ramsay as the pillar of the family as she stands by the window. Window is the symbol of the fresh feelings; as window keeps ventilating the room so Mrs. Ramsay keeps the family lively and warm.
3. The Light house is the symbol used for Mrs Ramsay. She is standing straight in the storms of emotions and minor clashes among family members as light house is standing and guiding force for the voyager. Lily sometimes carries the feelings of writer. Woolf had overcome her own struggle with society as well as her inner self, which brought stoicism. When Lily paints, she remembers Mrs Ramsay.
4. Here Woolf has used Oedipus myth and myth of Rhea and other Goddesses. The light house is relevant to the human phallic symbol but here it stands for Mrs Ramsay. She is the live force, creative force of the Ramsay family. Exalting the feminine principle in life over the masculine, Virginia Woolf built her novel around a character embodying the life-giving role of the female. In opposition, she shows the male, both in the father and son aspect, as death-bearing?arid, sterile, hateful, and "fatal" . The female principle in life is exalted in all its aspects of love which are opposed to the harsh and critical aspects of the male principle, of fertility with its pattern of triumph over death in rebirth. What, then, becomes of the single obvious central symbol, the Lighthouse.
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