Paper - 9, The Modernist Literature

Name: Brijal OzaRoll no.: 21

Paper no.: 9, The Modernist LiteratureYear: 2015 – 2017

Email ID: brijaloza1994@gmail.comSubmitted to: Dept. of English

M.K. Bhav. Uni.

Feministic study of Mrs. Ramsey and Lily Briscoe

About Virginia Woolf• English writer and one of

the modernist female writer of the 20th century.

• In her essay “A Room of One’s Own” in which there she gave famous dictum.

• “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”.

Definition of Feminism:

“The movement of feminism aimed to establishing and defending equal political, social and economic rights and equal opportunities for women”

Quotes of Virginia Woolf

Character of Mrs. Ramsey• Mrs. Ramsey is the central character.

• A woman belonging to the Victorian age

• Portrayed in a image of fertility and softness

• Totally different from Lily Briscoe

• Match maker and gives much important to the marriage

• According to her all men and all woman should definitely be married

Character of Lily Briscoe• Also a central character• Portrays as a ‘New

Woman’• Inspired by Woolf’s sister

‘Vanessa Bell – to be a painter’

• Totally oppose from Mrs. Ramsey

• But in some way she wants to be like Mrs. Ramsey

Feministic study of Mrs. Ramsey and Lily Briscoe

• Woolf describe that woman as utterly unselfish who scarifies herself daily.

• Mrs. Ramsey pays her role as house wife

• Anti -hero of Woolf

• Idealized woman type according to Victorian values

Continue…• Woolf represents Lily as a

role model for women

• And defines the patriarchal society

• Lily ignores the patriarchal rules and her aim to take social role with her with becoming an artist

• Struggling female artist

Continue….• Woolf in the feministic criticism – considering woman’s

ability and necessity in male dominating society.

• Lily is idealized woman for Woolf

• Lily is one of the character who maintain their existence by the end of the novel

• Woolf’s use of stream of consciousness technique gives the reader a chance to observe mind of women of that period.

Woolf reflects her own pain in the

character of Mrs. Ramsey

Woolf reflects her own life in the

character of Lily as modern woman

Thank You…