A Room Of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
//"lock up your libraries if you like;but there is no gate, no
lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind"//
Virginia Woolf's 'A room of one's own' unlatches a world of furious,fierce, sincere and transparent truths towards 'Women and Fiction'. This essay is based upon two papers she read to Arts society at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in October 1928. Author creates 'I' as the protagonist of the writing and further points out her views.She discusses many unexplored arenas of women subjugation like the poverty among women and how it keeps her in a closed room feeding children and knitting,about how the doors of knowledge were shut before women by the Beadles, professors, kings, about how lesbianism was left unrecorded in the fiction,about how men wrote about women.
//"possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority "//.
The one where the author describes about the existence of Shakespeare's sister and how her future was shattered but Shakespeare's wasn't, is my favourite and touching part of the essay. The last two pages, those simple, relieving yet important words stood me upon my toes. Author asks women to have a five hundred years and a lock on the door, with this she meant a power to contemplate and the power to think for oneself respectively.She ask women to earn money and to have a room of one's own;to be independent and to create a room for oneself,to think about ourselves, to write about ourselves either it be novel, poetry or any another fiction. The greatest feminist polemic of the century.
//"lock up your libraries if you like;but there is no gate, no
//"possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority "//.
The one where the author describes about the existence of Shakespeare's sister and how her future was shattered but Shakespeare's wasn't, is my favourite and touching part of the essay. The last two pages, those simple, relieving yet important words stood me upon my toes. Author asks women to have a five hundred years and a lock on the door, with this she meant a power to contemplate and the power to think for oneself respectively.She ask women to earn money and to have a room of one's own;to be independent and to create a room for oneself,to think about ourselves, to write about ourselves either it be novel, poetry or any another fiction. The greatest feminist polemic of the century.
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