Thinking Activity: Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse"

Thinking Activity: Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse".

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Stream of consciousness this technique is very well used in this novel by Virginia Woolf. She very well explain that how thinking makes our relations so much complicated. Because every people think differently to another people and this kind of thought which makes life more complicated.

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Yes, Mrs. Ramsay is a good wife and also good mother. Mrs. Ramsay is major character in the novel because this character which remain from beginning of the novel and end of the novel. In this character Lily is semientobiographical which is represent the Woolf her self and artistic process.

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Catalogues of Army and Navy symbolized that the change of technology and improving human culture. James Cutting the refrigerator it is a symbol of preservation. It is an instrument of science. Cutting a refrigerator it is a negative thing. The catalogues in 'To The Lighthouse' does not have a date but it does have a name world war.

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In 'To The Lighthouse' Virginia Woolf uses a variety of myths. In the novel female role like the mother, and mother remain become the center, mother is controlling one or all. In this novel James who was a son of the Mrs. Ramsay. He love his mother deeply and feels a murderous antipathy toward his father.

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Kustlern means artist it,  eans artist novel. And it is related with the character of Lily Brisco. We can say that 'To The Lighthouse' is kunstlernrroman novel. Because there is two character growth, Virginia Woolf's growth in her life as a writer and the character of Lily Brisco. She is painter but her painting is not complete earlier when Mrs. Ramsay is live but after her death time passes and Lily completed the novel ends. So, painter her growth is also seen in the novel.

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Virginia Woolf her self who is categorically represented by Lily, so in the light house she explain her dilemma with the use of Lily's character. In this novel Mrs. Ramsay always has to struggle or balance the relation between son and father, but Mr. Ramsay storms about in a temper when people do not act according to his wishes or his timetable.

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In the novel we find that the beginning of the novel James desire to go to the lighthouse, and we find that in the end of the novel. Here I'm agree with it that this novel is more poignant than movie because when we read something that time we imagine, so many things with various point of view and different way.

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At the end Lily's painting and she complete the picture of Mrs. Ramsay and its shows the complexity of this both character Lily and Mrs. Ramsay. We can see in this  end Lily always wanted be like Mrs. Ramsay but she not becomes totally like her.