A Room Of One's Own By Virginia Wolf
Essay Question #2:
In “A Room of Ones Own” by Virginia Wolf, this is where I started to think about domestic unease. To think about the inequality between men and women of the time, you would have to also imagine how this idea of a woman not being looked as equal to her husband could cause domestic unease. Virginia Wolf does a great job painting that picture for us when we imagine if Shakespeare had a sister. Here is a young lady who is married off young, ran away, attempts to become an actress but is denied, becomes pregnant, and in the end commits suicide. If it is not for the oppression of women, there would be no domestic unease because men would not feel the need to have a submissive wife who only speaks when spoken to and women would …show more content…
Nature is heavily demonstrated often in romantic poetry because this was during the industrial revolution. Romantics felt we were beginning to neglect nature with factories and buildings being built everywhere, they felt it was imperative to remind people about it. Shelly wrote in Ozymandias, “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay, of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.” This poem is about the statue of a great King, but now it is nothing but ruins. We can compare the King to America or Europe and its great industrial accomplishments, but poets felt that these advancements were causing people to stray away from nature and their authentic self which will only end in ruins.
In modern literary work we see how industrialization and the World War changed the way people thought. In “Waiting for Godot”, people began to question their existence and if there was a God because there was so much destruction happening around them. From reading “To Room Nineteen” and “The Waiters Wife, there is domestic unease, women began to think for themselves and desire more from life than just being a wife and …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock”. Here we have a man who is filled with anxiety and insecurities that he allows to prevent him from doing what he desires. He wishes to have the confidence to approach a woman and have a relationship, but his thinning hair and awkward personality stops him. He realizes that he keeps missing the opportunity with the passing of time, but at the same time he assures himself that he has more time to prepare himself. Elliot also reminds the reader of the passing of time by the repeated “women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo." In the end of the poem, he has waited too long, and he is now an old man in flannel pants. “I grow old ... I grow old ...I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.” I believe this poem was more created from personal place. Elliot might have struggled with the same insecurities and social
In “A Room of Ones Own” by Virginia Wolf, this is where I started to think about domestic unease. To think about the inequality between men and women of the time, you would have to also imagine how this idea of a woman not being looked as equal to her husband could cause domestic unease. Virginia Wolf does a great job painting that picture for us when we imagine if Shakespeare had a sister. Here is a young lady who is married off young, ran away, attempts to become an actress but is denied, becomes pregnant, and in the end commits suicide. If it is not for the oppression of women, there would be no domestic unease because men would not feel the need to have a submissive wife who only speaks when spoken to and women would …show more content…
Nature is heavily demonstrated often in romantic poetry because this was during the industrial revolution. Romantics felt we were beginning to neglect nature with factories and buildings being built everywhere, they felt it was imperative to remind people about it. Shelly wrote in Ozymandias, “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay, of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.” This poem is about the statue of a great King, but now it is nothing but ruins. We can compare the King to America or Europe and its great industrial accomplishments, but poets felt that these advancements were causing people to stray away from nature and their authentic self which will only end in ruins.
In modern literary work we see how industrialization and the World War changed the way people thought. In “Waiting for Godot”, people began to question their existence and if there was a God because there was so much destruction happening around them. From reading “To Room Nineteen” and “The Waiters Wife, there is domestic unease, women began to think for themselves and desire more from life than just being a wife and …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock”. Here we have a man who is filled with anxiety and insecurities that he allows to prevent him from doing what he desires. He wishes to have the confidence to approach a woman and have a relationship, but his thinning hair and awkward personality stops him. He realizes that he keeps missing the opportunity with the passing of time, but at the same time he assures himself that he has more time to prepare himself. Elliot also reminds the reader of the passing of time by the repeated “women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo." In the end of the poem, he has waited too long, and he is now an old man in flannel pants. “I grow old ... I grow old ...I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.” I believe this poem was more created from personal place. Elliot might have struggled with the same insecurities and social