Final essay

Virginia Woolf was a great writer in the 20th century. She contributed to make wider the women writers space through her work. Furthermore she inspired and encouraged a lot of women in Literature. What is more she wrote about different topics but always feminist topic was her main concern. Woolf had an intense life consequently her work was more intense and extraordinary.As a general point of view Virginia Woolf lived a difficult life. She was extremely intelligent thank to the cultural environment that she had. This writer was surrounded by an intellectual atmosphere that was fundamental for her. On the other hand, Woolf suffered the worst thing that a woman can experience, sexual abuse. This issue was so painful and traumatic that she got six. This terrible experience become in a ghost who attack her mind, concentration, health, marriage life, etc. However she was clever and through the writing she could find some peace.In the essay “On being ill” she express all her feelings about being ill, she explained the soul just look through the body, the spirit is always perfect but the body, the container gets six. She spent many days of her life in bed, because she was six but she was always writing. This book was fantastic because almost everybody writes about the mind but never about the body. Virginia through this book brought other important subject to literature, illness.Not only illness was her concern also feminist themes were present in her work. Woolf was worried about women role of those times. She knew that women have multi roles mother, housewife, lover, etc. In addition ignorance and economic dependence were harmful for the women writings. In order to improve women works and encourage women writers to write, she wrote A Room of One's own. She starts with this statement “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." It is hard and powerful but it is totally realistic. She knew that men have been studying from the beginning while women were cooking or washing the dishes. Consequently she dares to criticise women work though this novel.
Woolf in her essay “A room of one’s own” she invented a women writer and a novel. The main idea is to express the difficulties of a women writer and how important are these difficulties in the writer’s inspiration. Woolf analized the negative points which affect the writer’s inspiration. The first thing that Woolf says it is the importance of having a room of one’s own. It is normal that men have a personal place, a room forbbiden for children, a room for work. However a personal room for women was totally mad for those times. Even at the present time it is still weird, why a woman would need her own room? Woolf through her apectacular writing answer the question. She explaines that this personal room which has a door with a lock means that everything that exist out of the room is not important. Now everything is in the room it is important, and this room would be able to inspire the women writer.
On the other hand Woolf was not a poor person, she belonged to a middle upper class family. For this reason Woolf could write without to be worried about lack of money or working. Maybe Woolf did not know the unfair situation of the women who worked in the factories in terrible conditions. However, she knew gender discrimination and how difficult is to be a women writer in those times. The 20th century was the women movement, the women’s liberation, the female power and they fought and women got important things. The female vote, fair working conditions, etc. Nevertheless Woolf contributed to women liberation from other point of view. From the artistic point of view she contributed to women’s mind liberation.
In my case to know and to research about this writer was an unforgettable experience as a woman. I have learnt through this woman and others that I must to respect myself, my body, my spirit because they in the past work very hard for us. Thanks these brave women that at the present time we can study, work, write, sing, etc. Thanks these women we can make our own desicion and thanks Virginia Woolf that I am going to have my own room...

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Virginia Woolf

"a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
A Room of One's
I want to analize her life and her work, I would like to focus on her two books, “A room of one’s own” and “on being ill”. I want to write about the relationship between her life and her work.

Introduction
Feminist theme in her work.


Body: Possible topics
1) Biographical approach:
a) Mental illness

2) Power to women:
a) Women writers condition



Conclusion : She made a great contribution to feminist movement. Also, many women were inspired by Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf

While men were creating, thinking, learning, writing, reading we were cooking, washing, raising children, and sending them to the world. Women were in darkness for many centuries. Thanks to the women who started feminist movement, they achieved a lot of things and the reading of this kind of text is moving, I feel proud of this kind of woman who was very objective at the moment of evaluate women writers of those times. The 20^th century was complicated for women and to be a women writer was more difficult. There were many obstacles, society wasn’t prepared but finally at the present time we can see the changes. However, gender discrimination still exits but we are in the right way.

Virginia Woolf is one of the greatest women writers also Jane Austen, they are fundamental in the women readings because helps us to understand the path that the feminist movement did.

Correction

Good Luck or richness?
This short story is about the complexity of belonging to a certain social class. In the story the family does not have enough money but they must keep on the expensive style although. One of the children realizes about the luck of money. Consequently this issue was in the child’s mind, he asked his mother why they have money problems and the mother answered because your father is unlucky. This part in the short story is fundamental because it determined the central topic of the story. It is very important to be a lucky person more than to be rich. If you are lucky everything is going to be easier, you will know the right people at the right time in the correct place. Opportunities are going to be everywhere, any decision that you will make has positive consequences in your life. Great ideas will come up easily to your mind when you are a lucky person.Finally if you are rich and luck is not in your side you can loose your richness. Maybe you have a lot of money but you are lonely. In addition good luck is more important than richness because money without good luck is useless.



The invisible Japanese gentleman
This short story is related to the realism movement because it is a simple story full of common details. The comments of the narrator are fundamental in this short story for understand some important details about the characters. For instance through the narrator’s comments the reader can knows that the beautiful lady belongs to upper class. The role of the Japanese people is very important because the author tries to show that the lady does not have the power of observation. On the other hand the lady thinks she is an excellent writer with the power of observation. Nevertheless she does not have this power she is not able to see the reality she is always thinking about herself.
I think the main point of this story is a satire about romantic writers who are up in the moon instead of being focus on the reality. In addition the satire is concentrated on artists who belong to the aristocracy and their works are useless with cliché titles.

The waste land

The waste land:
The comparison between the poem and the Picture, they have many similar things. Both shows a dead land without life and nature is none exist, also both show feelings of loneliness. If I have to choose the best subtitle of the poem to the picture I would put the “dead water” .Water means life, nature, opportunity without water there is nothing, for that reason water is our most important natural resource. The poem and the picture are so powerful in order to emphasise our worst side, for example the destruction of our nature, our terrible garbage contribution. The picture and the poem are excellent in order to bring up these kinds of topics. I related the global warming issue with the poem and the picture, because global warming is our responsibility and the feeling of loneliness.

The Odour of Chrysanthemums and the Rocking Horse Winner

These two short stories have a lot of points in common. The importance of money appears in both stories but from different points of view. In the Odour of Chrysanthemums the luck of money and the misery show up in everypart of the story. I notice these issues through the details of the narration, for instance the description of smells and colors. These descriptions are very clear that I can tell the poverty and the misery. In the Rocking Horse Winner also there is luck of money but there is no misery. The family refuse to face up to the reality and they still try to keep the expensive life style. Money is so important in this short story that the child of the family is worried about it.

There is another important point that the two stories have in common. The father figure is absent, the father appears as a supplier his main function is bring money to home and the affection part is nonexistent.

luck or richness?

This short story is about the complexity of belong to a certain social class. In the story the family does not have enough money but they must keep the expensive style although. One of the children realizes about the luck of money. Consequently this issue was in the child’s mind, he asked to his mother why they have money problems and the mother answered because your father is unlucky. This part in the short story is fundamental because it determined the central topic of the story. It is very important to be a lucky person more than be rich. If you are lucky everything is going to be easier, you will know the right people at the right time in the correct place. Opportunities are going to be everywhere, any decision that you make will has positive consequences in your life. Great ideas will come up easily to your mind when you are lucky.
Finally if you are rich and luck is not in your side you can loose your richness. Maybe you have a lot of money but you are lonely. In addition luck is more important than richness because money without luck is useless.