A Room Of One's Own, By Virginia Woof

A Room of One’s Own is a film that explores the notion of women in literature. In A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woof, we discover that the major them being addressed is in fact feminism. Woolf lectures on the topic of women and the notion of their ability to create literature. Throughout the film she exploits the ways women are being belittled due to the sex they identify as. At the beginning of he passage provided we see evidence which describes the perception's society has created about women and the box of expectations women are supposedly expected to comply with. In the passage Woolf describes her confusion of literature prior to “Jane Austin”. Woolf displays how about women were being perceived as flat and without dimension. Woolf argues, that “It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex”. Through this she explains how women are not only being unfairly distinguished as
“ Hence, perhaps, the peculiar nature of woman in fiction; the astonishing extremes of her beauty and horror; her alternations between heavenly goodness and hellish depravity--for so a lover would see her as his love rose or sank, was prosperous or unhappy” the quote is arguing how women also have passions that they would like to follow. But unfortunately how women are being objectified by men in every way possible except for their minds. She suggests that women should not be known only by their relationships with men. But rather as an individual who has her own identity. She argues that women do not need men in order to be happy and that a mans existence in a woman's life is no longer necessary. She goes on to describe how society allows everything to be measured and put in to