Female representations in Virginia Woolf's to the Lighthouse
/ by Jacqueline Ntakirutimana ; Eric Sipyinyu Njeng, directeur
. - Bujumbura : University of Burundi, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of english language and Literature, 2013
. - IV-62 f. ; 30 cm.
A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree "Licence en Langues et Littératures Anglaises ".
Résumé,
This work examines the roles and images the traditionalist and modernist woman play in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Virginia Woolf portray this throough skillful characterization of Mrs. Ramasay.
She is an ideal woman who fulfills well traditional gender roles of wife and mother. Lily Briscoe a perfect woman believes in herself and is modernist.
Furthermore, Woolf, on the one hand describes vividly how women are often kept in the unifortunate and inferior positions by men and the patriarchal system. On the other hand, she shows that women can resist any regulations that hamper them by becoming an artist with a rebellious spirit. Therefore, Mrs. Ramsay is excessively a conformist and Lily Briscoe is excessively a non-conformist. Both of these women are important.
Mrs Ramsay the traditionalist woman has the power to unite people and Lily Briscoe the modernist woman, gets free through her assertiveness.