‘To
The Lighthouse’, it’s very natural to talk about her stream of
consciousness technique. In this novel, the structure of external
objective events is demised in scope and scale, or almost e completely
dissolved. It is composed of the continual activity of characters’
consciousness and shower of impressions.
Virginia
Woolf, among the stream of consciousness writers relies most on the
indirect interior monologue and she uses it with great skill. In ‘To the
Light House’ Virginia Woolf succeeds in producing a much subtle effect
through the use of this technique. This novel contains a great deal of
straight, conventional narration and description but the interior
monologue is used often enough to give the novel its special character
of seeming to be always within the consciousness of the chief
characters. Virginia Woolf says in her essay Modern Fiction.
In describing her Novel, To the
Lighthouse, Woolf used the language of psychoanalysis. She wrote “I
suppose that I did this work for myself” The Novel is set on an island
in the Hebrides at the Ramsay’s vacation house. It is set on ten year
period.
Lily’s painting represents a struggle against gender
convention, represented by Charles Tinsley’s statement that: “women can’t
paint or write.” This symbol of picture is symbolizes the condition of
woman during those days. It shows woman’s struggle of woman in the patriarchal
society. She desire to express Mrs. Ramsay’s essence as an individual wife and
mother in her painting. Lily’s vision depends on balanced and synthesis: how to
bring together disparate thing in harmony; this mirror Woolf’s writing creed – “the
novel is a both a critique and a tribute to the enduring power of Mrs. Ramsay.
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