paper - 9, the modernist literature
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Name: Brijal OzaRoll no.: 21
Paper no.: 9, The Modernist LiteratureYear: 2015 – 2017
Email ID: [email protected] to: Dept. of English
M.K. Bhav. Uni.
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Feministic study of Mrs. Ramsey and Lily Briscoe
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About Virginia Woolf• English writer and one of
the modernist female writer of the 20th century.
• In her essay “A Room of One’s Own” in which there she gave famous dictum.
• “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”.
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Definition of Feminism:
“The movement of feminism aimed to establishing and defending equal political, social and economic rights and equal opportunities for women”
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Quotes of Virginia Woolf
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Character of Mrs. Ramsey• Mrs. Ramsey is the central character.
• A woman belonging to the Victorian age
• Portrayed in a image of fertility and softness
• Totally different from Lily Briscoe
• Match maker and gives much important to the marriage
• According to her all men and all woman should definitely be married
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Character of Lily Briscoe• Also a central character• Portrays as a ‘New
Woman’• Inspired by Woolf’s sister
‘Vanessa Bell – to be a painter’
• Totally oppose from Mrs. Ramsey
• But in some way she wants to be like Mrs. Ramsey
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Feministic study of Mrs. Ramsey and Lily Briscoe
• Woolf describe that woman as utterly unselfish who scarifies herself daily.
• Mrs. Ramsey pays her role as house wife
• Anti -hero of Woolf
• Idealized woman type according to Victorian values
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Continue…• Woolf represents Lily as a
role model for women
• And defines the patriarchal society
• Lily ignores the patriarchal rules and her aim to take social role with her with becoming an artist
• Struggling female artist
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Continue….• Woolf in the feministic criticism – considering woman’s
ability and necessity in male dominating society.
• Lily is idealized woman for Woolf
• Lily is one of the character who maintain their existence by the end of the novel
• Woolf’s use of stream of consciousness technique gives the reader a chance to observe mind of women of that period.
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Woolf reflects her own pain in the
character of Mrs. Ramsey
Woolf reflects her own life in the
character of Lily as modern woman
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Thank You…