"To The Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf


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3) Considering symbolically, does the Lighthouse stand for Mrs. Ramsay or the narrator (Virginia Woolf herself who is categorically represented by Lily)? (Key: Take help from the presentation on Symbolism to connect Mrs. Caroline Ramsay with Lighthouse. Secondly, the narrator / author cannot fully disappear from the novel and thus the stoicism of Lily to paint and thus prove that she can paint, is symbolically presented in stoicism of Lighthouse. Read 'lighthouse' symbol from presentation slide with this insight to connect lighthouse with the narrator. Give your concluding remarks in the comment below in this blog ).

Answer:- The Light house is the symbol used for Mrs Ramsay. She is standing straight in the storms of emotions and minor clashes among family members as light house is standing and guiding force for the voyager. Lily sometimes carries the feelings of writer. Woolf had overcome her own struggle with society as well as her inner self, which brought stoicism. When Lily paints, she remembers Mrs Ramsay. If we talk about Mrs. Ramsay, she was represented as a caring homemaker, which shows the reality of the Woolf, stressing understanding between certain of the characters in the novel and her own family. She explicitly relates the contents of the look to her own parents and childhood that she has to always suppress herself ego in front of the male.

5) What do you understand by the German term 'Künstlerroman? How can you justify that 'To The Lighthouse' is 'Künstlerroman' novel? 

Answer:- As I understand Kunstlerroman novel means ‘novel about growth of an artist’. The Lighthouse is a kunstlerroman novel because here we find two artists growth. Beginning of the novel we see that Lily was started to her painting and the middle of the novel we find that she left her painting and the end of the novel we find that she complete her novel so here we find that artists growth in mind means through her all ling period she continuously   thinking about her painting, so here we can say that growth of an artist’s mind.

9) What does the catalogue named as 'Army and Navy' signify? What does cutting of 'Refrigerator'  signify?

Answer:- ‘Army and Navy’ and Refrigerator are connected with preserve or shaper of culture. The catalogue I n To the Lighthouse does not have a date, but it does have a name. War and consumption are linked in the same object. Why Virginia Woolf put here reference of refrigerator and why James cut only refrigerator?  So here Mrs.Ramsay is training and shaping her children’s mind. Here instrument of science and occupied of same sphere as technology and war in linked that science and tech. has this war effect of novel. And War and consumptions are linked in the same object. So we see that war and refrigerator has symbols and Refrigerate is Mrs.Ramsay. War images id bold, death and fight but may be in this novel. At that time both are symbol and refer in this novel each and every of scene of novel.

10) Why did Virginia give such prominence to the tale of the “Fisherman’s Wife”? In particular, why did she weave such a misogynist tale into the fabric of a book which so eloquently challenges received patriarchal notions about the roles and capabilities of women? 

Answer:-  In this novel we will find the representation of fairy tale told by Mrs. Ramsay  to her children which shows barrenness  and unreasonable demand from the husband which shows that how Mrs. Ramsay has to bent upon the bad mood of her husband that a women should not speak or quarrel with  anybody especially her husband otherwise she will known as  uncultured women. So it shows suppressed desires of women like Mrs. Ramsay. Mrs. Ramsay always used to fulfill the ego of her husband, which we will find into the story of fisherman’s wife also. So the cutting of the fish is also shows the comment upon the male dominant and the danger of male willfulness. So we can say that fisherman’ fairy tale was related with Mrs. Ramsay and Lily has suppressed desires as womanhood. Which is great narrative quality found into the novel by Virginia Woolf?

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