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    warren smith. These citizens grow up under the same social institutions and although classes are drawn up on wealth; it can be conceived that two people may have very similar opinions of the society that created them. The English society which Virginia Woolf presents individuals that are uncannily similar. These two individuals carry the names of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith. Clarissa and Septimus‚ share the quality of communicating through actions‚ not words‚ and perceiving death as

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    - C. Rajagopalchari Nehru - Some Memories – Arnold Toynbee Tolerance - E.M.Forster The Lion and the Lamb - Leonard Clark Professions for Women – Virginia Woolf Little Things - Samuel Smiles Unit II – Drama Selected Scenes from Shakespeare’s Plays – Book I ( Emerald Publishers) Rs.35/- Funeral Oration ( Julius Caesar) Trial for a Pound of flesh ( The Merchant

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    Cited: Goldman‚ Jane. "The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism‚ Post- Impressionism and the Politics of the Visual". Cambridge‚ U.K.‚ New York‚ NY: Cambridge‚ 1998. 100-115.

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    stereotypes. In Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own‚ she comments on society’s seemingly incessant subjugation of female writers and its impact. As women were expected to live a humble lifestyle‚ the means of obtaining an education remained unfeasible for many women. Woolf alludes to Judith Shakespeare—a fictional character‚ to describe a woman’s plight. Judith “remained at home” with “no chance of learning” as she was conformed to “the conditions of life for a woman” (Woolf.3.4-5). Despite

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    In “The Death of a Moth” written by Virginia Woolf in 1942‚ she correlates the life of a moth to the simplicity “true nature of life” and death. Moths are content with life while they do their duties as humans are‚ while putting up a fight. A large process of life of suffering and attempting to survive in this large process. Woolf claims that we‚ like moths‚ have such a simple and marvelous purpose in this world. We can do so much with the amount of energy we have but‚ we only do what we have

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    SOLID OBJECTS‚ Virginia Woolf The only thing that moved upon the vast semicircle of the beach was one small black spot. As it came nearer to the ribs and spine of the stranded pilchard boat‚ it became apparent from a certain tenuity in its blackness that this spot possessed four legs; and moment by moment it became more unmistakable that it was composed of the persons of two young men. Even thus in outline against the sand there was an unmistakable vitality in them; an indescribable vigour in the

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    VIRGINIA WOOLF; BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS An Album Submitted for Final Exam History of English Literature 2011 DHINI R. H_06185065 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT-ANDALAS UNIVERSITY 1/7/2011 VIRGINIA WOOLF – BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS An Album Submitted for Final Exam History of English Literature Compiled by: DHINI REZKY HUSADA 06 185 065 ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT FACULTY OF LETTERS ANDALAS UNIVERSITY PADANG 2011 I INTRODUCTION The movement of English literature is immortalized by

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    of their characteristics and views. Also‚ the difference in writing styles could be drastic‚ or slight. Nevertheless‚ the writers display how versatile the English language can be. Alice Walker was born in 1944 as a farm girl in Georgia. Virginia Woolf was born in London in1882. They have both come to be highly recognized writers of their time‚ and they both have rather large portfolios of work. The scenes the might have grown up seeing and living through may have greatly influenced their

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    Mrs. Dalloway is a complex and compelling modernist novel by Virginia Woolf. In the novel‚ published in 1925‚ Woolf comes up with a new literary form using which she reveals her views of political‚ economical and social issues artistically in her work. Virginia Woolf ’s short stories‚ essays‚ letters‚ diaries and novels are full of criticism of the social structure. For example‚ in her first novel‚ Night and Day (1919)‚ she criticizes the patriarchal dividend in the family that enslaves women. In

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    Virginia Woolf vs. Orhan Pamuk Aykut Can TÜRKMEN Petroleum – Gas University of Ploieşti Abstract: The aim of this paper is to compare and indicate the affect of “stream of consciousness”. Moreover‚ I tried to show the (dis)similarities between these two important writers. In this paper‚ for Orhan Pamuk‚ I focused on the novel which is called “Sessiz Ev (Silent House)”. Key words: stream of consciousness‚ omniscient point of view‚ third person narration‚ impact

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