Thursday, October 18, 2007

Hw 21 Fish and Chips with a Woolf

Sup cuz:
You are in luck, I have in fact read the first chapter of Virginia Woolf's book. As to wether my analysis is correct I'm not very confident about, but I'll do my best. The chapter is centered around Woolf, she has been ask to decipher a difficult question and as the nature of difficult questions, it is giving her some difficulty. That question is, "what is the role of women in fiction?" She puzzles this question out as she sits on the banks of a river in the campus of Oxbridge, which is really just a joke, combining to the two schools Oxford and Cambridge. She comes up with the term "A woman must have money and a room of her own to write fiction." I believe what she means by this is that a woman must have respect and a creative atmosphere in order to write good literature. Several times she refers to World War One, she contemplates on the fact that perhaps, the war took the romantism away from the people. Which would explain why there were no memorable modern poets, or why her luncheon no longer permeated the same humming noise of life. There are no need of paragraphs in this chapter, because it is merely a stream of conciousness of Woolf's. You're english teacher might be right to conisder this an important work, it brings you into the mind of literature of the time. Literature greatly differs among the ages and it is good to know the mindset of a different time. Well, I hope I came close or was of any help to you cuz, good luck!

1 comment:

Tracy Mendham said...

Yes, and she compares the men's university, Oxbridge, to the women's college Fernham, to illustrate the difference between men's and women's access to education, tradition, and money.