This blog is part of my classroom thinking activity on the novel 'To The Lighthouse'.
Here is the given task:click here
1) Beauty of the novel ‘To the lighthouse’ is human nature and human relations. Writer has not told story in traditional way of describing events but she has concentrated on a small number of characters with their interior monologue. In this novel nothing happens, there are no events only stream of consciousness goes on and on. Use of parentheses say for example James wishes to visit the lighthouse but Mr. Ramsay strongly opposes because of bad weather thus James feels:
“Had there been an axe handy or any other weapon, he would have gashed a hole in his father’s breast…”
This is the inner feeling of James when Mr. Ramsay refused to go. This is how Woolf has made use of parentheses throughout which we came to know that what character thinks at particular time and situation.
2) The novel is both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay. Mrs. Ramsay’s character is a tribute as well as critique on womanhood. She is caring and kind who pampers her husband’s ego. Taking care of everyone. Woman full of good-will and no ill-will. Mrs. Ramsay’s character is like a character of आज्ञाकारी and संस्कारी बहू we see in Indian daily soaps. According to her she is happier than Lily because she herself is married while she considers Lily as Poor. She repeats the sentence time and again open ‘Open the window and close the doors’- which signifies that allowing yourself to think but close the door means closing the wider way for change or say not allowing yourself for change.
Both Lily and Mrs. Ramsay’s character presents different personality of womanhood. If we look from modern perspective toward the character we consider Lily’s character more independent.
5) Kunstlerroman means apprenticeship novel that deals with the youth and development of an individual who becomes and on threshold of becoming a painter musician or poet. Throughout the novel if we read Lily’s character she develops as a painter. In the third part she completes the painting of Mrs. Ramsay, and finally she has had her own vision. Same as Augustus Carmichael he is also a poet who is unknown chapter one but his poetry meets unexpected success afterwards. So both the characters develop: one as a painter and another as a poet.
9) On one hand it is a tool for preservation. Against that is also a symbol of change of technology, changing and presumably improving human culture. James is guided in his choice by Mrs. Ramsay and it should therefore be associated with her role as preserver and shaper of culture.Traditional woman who is not allowing the change, and preserver of old tradition.
10) Virginia Woolf with the use of fairy tale subverting the misogyny of the fairy tale. Fairy tale in novel challenges the myth about female desire and dangers of unopposed female will and desire. The real danger seems to be male needs and desire.
Here is the given task:click here
1) Beauty of the novel ‘To the lighthouse’ is human nature and human relations. Writer has not told story in traditional way of describing events but she has concentrated on a small number of characters with their interior monologue. In this novel nothing happens, there are no events only stream of consciousness goes on and on. Use of parentheses say for example James wishes to visit the lighthouse but Mr. Ramsay strongly opposes because of bad weather thus James feels:
“Had there been an axe handy or any other weapon, he would have gashed a hole in his father’s breast…”
This is the inner feeling of James when Mr. Ramsay refused to go. This is how Woolf has made use of parentheses throughout which we came to know that what character thinks at particular time and situation.
2) The novel is both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay. Mrs. Ramsay’s character is a tribute as well as critique on womanhood. She is caring and kind who pampers her husband’s ego. Taking care of everyone. Woman full of good-will and no ill-will. Mrs. Ramsay’s character is like a character of आज्ञाकारी and संस्कारी बहू we see in Indian daily soaps. According to her she is happier than Lily because she herself is married while she considers Lily as Poor. She repeats the sentence time and again open ‘Open the window and close the doors’- which signifies that allowing yourself to think but close the door means closing the wider way for change or say not allowing yourself for change.
Both Lily and Mrs. Ramsay’s character presents different personality of womanhood. If we look from modern perspective toward the character we consider Lily’s character more independent.
5) Kunstlerroman means apprenticeship novel that deals with the youth and development of an individual who becomes and on threshold of becoming a painter musician or poet. Throughout the novel if we read Lily’s character she develops as a painter. In the third part she completes the painting of Mrs. Ramsay, and finally she has had her own vision. Same as Augustus Carmichael he is also a poet who is unknown chapter one but his poetry meets unexpected success afterwards. So both the characters develop: one as a painter and another as a poet.
9) On one hand it is a tool for preservation. Against that is also a symbol of change of technology, changing and presumably improving human culture. James is guided in his choice by Mrs. Ramsay and it should therefore be associated with her role as preserver and shaper of culture.Traditional woman who is not allowing the change, and preserver of old tradition.
10) Virginia Woolf with the use of fairy tale subverting the misogyny of the fairy tale. Fairy tale in novel challenges the myth about female desire and dangers of unopposed female will and desire. The real danger seems to be male needs and desire.
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