Essays on Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando describes a young man changing himself into a woman through the centuries. Thereby, the writing style evolves constantly with the transformation of its main character. The critique of gender is central in the novel and the role of gender is criticized…

Virginia Woolf’s “Kew Gardens” is a short story bursting with imagery and symbolism. The story begins in the Royal Botanic Gardens and then moves forward to describe the garden through various eyes and describe the outside world through the walks of life that live among…

8 November 2019Mary Wollstonecraft is considered one of the founders of the feminist movement and philosophy. She wrote books for children, novels, history works, and in defense of the rights of both men and women alike. She was mostly famous for her book A Vindication…

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life” – Virginia Woolf, one of the most eminent writers of her time, during her life she suffered the loss of her parents as well as her siblings which led her to lose control of her mind, her mental…

This seminar paper will be dealing with Virginia Woolf and her perception towards artists, art, the process of its creation. These topics are omnipresent in all her works, both fictional and non-fictional, and these paper will try to present those viewpoints through her novel To…

A room of one’s ownIntroduction In 1928 Virginia Woolf was invited by a college to deliver lecturers. She delivered lecturer on the issue of women and fiction. She expended her lecturers and revised them into an essay ‘A Room Of One’s Own’ which was printed…

The short story “A Haunted House” is story with meaning, by portraying to us the treasure of life. When two ghosts are searching through their old house, looking for their “Treasure”, the treasure or meaning is revealed to us. The joy and love shared between…

‘A simple poem for Virginia Wolf’ is authored by Bronwen Wallace and released without a specific time frame. “A Room of One’s Own’ is an extended essay that was written by Virginia Wolf and published in 1929. These works emerge out of a time period…

Shift in Tone and Style in “Death of the Moth” In “Death of the Moth,” Virginia Woolf’s tone and style change from mellow and hopeful to melancholy and dreary. As the speaker first notices the moth’s struggle to escape the window pane, she becomes almost…

Creativity Linked with Mental Illness: Virginia Woolf Abstract Virginia Woolf was an English writer who was considered one of the best writers in the 20th century. She was believed to have Bipolar II disorder and there is more than enough evidence to back this statement…

The Absence of Enlightenment The absence of enlightenment is a very dark place; there is not much to life if we do not have some sort of enlightenment or knowledge. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”, the prisoners are in darkness, because their perception…

In Chapter 3, Woolf takes up the question of why have there not been many great female writers, starting with the Elizabethan age. What are the external obstacles that stand in the way of a woman who might want to write? What are the internal…