Name : Gond Asmita K. Roll No. : 1st Paper : The modernist literature Topic : Art of characterization in ‘ To the lighthouse’ by Virginia Woolf.Pg enrollment no: pg14101017Year : 2015Class : M.A, SEM--3Email-Id : asmita.gond414@gmail.com

asmita.gond414@gmail.comSubmitted to : Department of English M.K.B.U. Bhavnagar University

About Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was born in London ,

January 26, 1882. His father Leslie Stephen was the

author of critical , biographical essay. Virginia Woolf stresses freedom in

her family life. Was educated at home. Married Leonard Woolf She was weak, sick and suffered from

depression She also member of Bloomsbury

group. Died on 28 March 1941 (aged 59);

River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex, England

• Her writings find the meaning of her own existence

• Her works examine the structure of human life

• Addresses relation ship to the experience of time.

• Inspired by French thinker Henri Bergson, Marcel Proust and Henri Bergson

Style of Virginia Woolf

• According to Arnold Bonnet he summarized ‘To the light house’ as……….

• “ A group of people plan to sail to the light house in a small boat that is the externality of the plot.”

• According to Diary of Virginia Woolf

“I have an idea that I will invent a new name for my books to supplant ‘novel’ But what? “ • ……. By Virginia Woolf

Social Cultural

Political

Intellectual

All writers are influences with

such environment

Influence of social environment of the writer

Woolf’s writing effected

Doubt and uncertainty Aestheticism

Feminism

Pessimism

Factor effected in Woolf’s writing

UrbanizationIt brought chaos in society and cities

Rapid industrialization• Rural area people rushes

towards cities

The windo

w

Time pass

The light

houseTo the Light house is divided into three

parts

Use of psychology

Influenced by

Charles Darwin

Sigmund Freud

Use of technical devices

Stream of consciousness

Interior monologue

Free association

Portrayal of characters

• Mrs. Ramsay is a beautiful and loving woman with wonderful abilities of handling things.

• Lily Briscoe rejects the conventional image of the woman represented by Mrs. Ramsay.

“Women can’t paint, woman can’t write”

------------- By Charles Tansley

Limitations of Virginia Woolf's writing

“She offers us a lyrical abstraction from the pain with which she felt the world the quality of her mind and spirit has a distinction that will make some readers always grateful of accept the offering.”

Most of the characters are of upper – middle class which Woolf belongedto.

Woolf has created a limited range of intellectual and moral types.

Use of multiple point of view Mrs. Ramsay is roundcharacter .

She reflects differently towards others thoughts, For example.

Children Husband Lily Briscoe Servant Augustus Carmichael James's and Cam’s thoughts

about their father.

• “There are conventional shifting from mind to

mind, so that we as often perceive the impression given by one to another as the experience each

receives”

Conventional Technique

Woolf’s Use of different colourse

YellowRedBrownBlueGreenWhite

Conclusionn

So we can say that the novel is highly adventurous in term of human consciousness.

According to Woolf a successful novelist is that he should give us life , spirit , truth or reality.

The novel is a new ‘spirit of awareness.’The novelist tried to convey her reader a very sensation

of living, , the experience of life as it is lived.

• http://hetalbagohil122013.blogspot.in/2013/10/art-of-characterization-in-to.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Lighthouse

Reference

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