Virginia Woolf

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

«…every thing is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit…»

THE AUTHOR & THE WORK

•Memories of summer holidays

• Death and transience in the author’s life and her work:

- Her life: a family tragedy

- 1941: Virginia Woolf committed suicide

THE TECHNIQUE:

• Explores the inner life of the character

• Action to its barest minimum

•Non chronological flux of thoughts and feelings

•Uses free indirect speech

THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

CHARACTERS & PLOT

The Ramsey family… …and their guests

THE SCENE:

• Rented house in Scotland

• An unattainable lighthouse

MALE & FEMALE NATURE:

Difficulties in communication

MR & MRS RAMSEY

About her: - a creative and sensitive soul

About him: - a rational philosopher

SHIFT OF TIME: TEN YEARS LATER

• Every thing has changed

•Some characters died

• The lighthouse is finally reached

• Naomi Carrieri • Classe V A scientifico• IISS Galileo Galilei Monopoli• a. s. 2012/2013