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Topic: Art as a means of preservation, with special reference of Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse.
Paper: 9Paper Name: The Modernist Literature
Prepared by: Drashti MehtaRoll No:8
PG Enrollment No:PG13101021Sem:3
Email id: [email protected] to: Smt. S.B. Gardi, Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar University
Bhavnagar UniversityBhavnagar(Gujarat-India)
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882
She was a novelist, critic, essayist and publisher.
She was one of the foremost modernists of 20th century
Most famous work:
1)Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
2)To the Lighthouse
3)Orlando(1928)
4)A Room of One’s
Own(1929)
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse is
included among the list
of hundred best English
language novels of the 20th century.
To the Lighthouse is the
21st most critically
acclaimed work of fiction ever
made.
The Book
• The book is divided into three parts.
• 1)The Window• 2)Time Passes• 3)To the Lighthouse
Woolf’s view
Novelist tries to express her own views on the problems of artistic creation and sensibility
Novelist’s sister was an Artist.
The Clash of Gender
The Clash of gender ideologies permits much of the novel and Woolf emphasizes a subversion of traditional female gender roles through the character of Lily.
Lily BriscoeShe paints a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay.
A young unmarried friend of
the Ramsays.
Lily’s Determination:
Lily’s mission of life ispainting.
Lily’s devotion to art, she prefers toremain single.
Lily believes that-“ A Brush is the only ally in
this life full of fret and hurry and rough and tumble of
our daily existence”.
A Woman Artist
Lily’s status as middle aged woman, who values artistic achievement over the prospects of marriage becomes increasingly difficult to maintain against the circumscribed expectations of society.
Struggling Artist
Lily suffers from a moral crisis over her desire to pursue art as a vocation because of gender inequality and male prejudices imposed upon women.
Art as a Vocation
She is challenging the status by picking up a paintbrush and experiences a pervasive sense of guilt as if committing a heinous crime.
Male Hegemony
• “Woman can not Paint or Write.”
•She is not confident enough in her abilities to showcase this controversial work to a judgmental public.•Her personal independence from the negative influences of male hegemony is directly linked to the aesthetic development as an artist.
Art as a Unifying Object
•Lily represents Woolf’s ideal artist, who mingles “Masculine” rationality with “Feminine” sympathy.
•Here art is defined by Lily as something able to unify disparate elements into a cohesive whole.
Transitory nature
Art as a means of Preservation
Art as a means of Preservation
Mrs. Ramsay - social interaction.
Art is,
perhap
s, the only hope of surety
in a wor
ld destined
and det
ermined to change: for
a whil
e mourning
Mrs. Ra
msay’s death, and painting on the lawn,
Lily reflects that
:
“Nothing stays, all
changes; but not Words, not Paint.”
Need of concentration
• Lily was getting a whole host of hazy notions, she was unable to grasp and tame on her canvas.
• She was finding problem of filling one empty space on the canvas.
Seclusion and Isolation
• Art is provided by the life, led by the people, artist must reflect the progressive urges of his time.
Identifying with people
• She loses consciousness of the world around, lost completely in her picture.
Moments of vision and fulfillmentFirst-S
he s
ees
mot
her a
nd c
hil
dr
en a
mong
hedg
ed a
nd
hous
e
Thir
d- S
he r
ecalls
memori
es- last t
en y
ears ag
o- a littl
e s
prig
or l
eaf
patt
er
n
on t
he ta
bl
e cl
ot
h.
Fourt
h-
At last s
he
dre
w a li
ne t
her
e i
n t
he c
entr
e, a
nd says,
“I Have had my Vision”.
Conclusion: Video
•Art lives in one or another way and a person becomes immortal through art.
•As Charles Tansley tells-Woman cannot Write or Paint.
•But Lily Proves herself.
