Thinking Activity
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Here is my blog on ponder upon some point of the novel 'To The Lighthouse', which is given by sir, click here to visit the blog of sir. So here I would like to interpret and portrait my views, so let's began..
Author: Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf Stephen; 25 January 1882- 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
#Brief introduction of 'To The Lighthouse':
To the lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.
Worksheet points
#How can you explain that 'What' Virginia Woolf wanted to say(for example, the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, the struggle of a female artist against the values of middle/upper class society etc) can only be said in the way she has said? (Key: The 'How' of the narrative technique is to be discussed along with features of stream of consciousness technique which helps Woolf to put in effective manner what she experienced in abstraction.)
If we read this novel deeply then we can find many serious as well as contemporary issues. Here what Virginia want to say through this novel is also very significant like the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, for instance, here in the novel the everyday conflict between Mrs. Ramsey and Mr. Ramsey and the conflict between parents and children. One another serious issue she mention here is that struggle of female in patriarchy society especially when female try to new things like painting as a artist then instead of support for this she get inferior comments we because barrier for her. The narrative technique she used here is 'stream of consciousness' the narrator is third person. Through this technique the reader can get through from one character's mind to another, so the reader can get what the character feels.
#Do you agree: "The novel is both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay"? Can we read Mrs. Ramsay in the context of the idea of ideal Indian Woman - Karyeshu dasi, Karaneshu manthri; Bhojeshu mata, Shayaneshu rambha; Kshamayeshu dharithri, Roopeshu lakshmi; Satkarma yuktayukta, kuladharma Patni.
Yes, the novel is the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay. We can also read Mrs. Ramsay in the context of the idea of ideal Indian woman, because her duty is to take care of family members or especially take care of boy child (James), and she is also believe in that the women can't write or paint ( stereotype of thinking) while Lilly Brisco trying to painting, she is not supportive as she should be, so in that case we se Mrs. Ramsay as a ideal woman.
#Considering symbolically, does the Lighthouse stand for Mrs. Ramsay or the narrator(Virginia Woolf herself who is categorically represented by Lily)? Secondly, the narrator/author cannot fully disappear from the novel and thus the stoicism of Lily to paint and thus prove that she can paint, is symbolically presented in stoicism of Lighthouse.
Yes, The Main aim of the the Lighthouse is to gave a way to ship when darkness is around it. Here instead of Mrs. Ramsay Lily represent as a lighthouse because she is trying to prove herself by painting, here Virginia Woolf herself who is categorically represented by Lily, here author cannot fully disappear from the novel and thus the stoicism of Lily to paint and thus prove that she can paint, author Virginia Woolf also face this type of problems in her own times, which she has to portrait through the character of Lily, is symbolically presented in stoicism of Lighthouse.
#In the article by Joseph Blonter, two myths are patterned together. Name the myths? How they are zeroed down to the symbols of 'Window' and 'Lighthouse'? How does the male phallic symbol represent feminine Mrs. Ramsay?
In this novel Virginia Woolf used myths like myth of Pahan and myth of Oedipus.
In the myth of Pagan, in which Woolf connected with Mrs. Ramsay with Rhea, who had similar numbers of children like Mrs. Ramsay and also a well nurtured woman and with Demeter an important characteristics of Mrs. Ramsay, Demeter was known as maker of earth fruitful while Mrs. Ramsay also a maker of fruitful family. Another myth is the myth of Oedipus complex. We can cannect this myth with James and Mr. Ramsay ( son- father) relationship James hatred towards his father because his father is not as lovable as his mother, his father is always say truth weather he like or not unlike Mrs. Ramsay.
#What do you understand by the German term "Kunstlerroman"? How can you justify that 'To the light House' is 'Kunstlerroman' novel?
The German term 'Kunstlerroman' means development or struggle of an artist as in ' To the Lighthouse' the character of Lily represent this term in this novel because as being as an artist she has to face a lot ( struggle) the author of this novel Virginia Woolf has to be faced the same struggle as am artist or writer in the patriarchal society in her time, so here through the character of Lily and her journey with struggle make this novel Kunstlerroman novel.
#Explain Lily's dilemma in 'To the light house'
In this novel, the character Lily's dilemma is different from others.she is at some point opposite from patriarchal society, for instance she is an artist and she believe that she can do as man can, but on the another side at the end of the novel she also want to become like Mrs. Ramsay as happy married life, to have a children or so on. So this both perspective is different from each other so we can't understand fully.
#You have compared the beginning and the ending of the novel and the film adaptation of the novel directed by Colin Gregg. Do you think that the novel is more poignant than the movie? If yes, do you ascribe the fact that the power of words is much greater than that of the screen/visual?
Yes, the novel is more poignant than the movie because originality is always superior. When we read the very beginning of the novel then we feel like what the character thought, we are in character's mind, what they thought and feel that can readers also get, this is also well aplied of stream of consciousness. But when we watch the movie then it has different beginning than novel it's not as effective as the novel because movie has to be unable to viewers to connect with characters of movie. Some things which is only expressed by words on express by visual, so in that sense also the novel is more poignant than movie.
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