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An 8 page research paper that contrasts and compares how Joseph Conrad perceived the role of women in society as compared with the perspective of Virginia Woolf. The writer argues that these two authors were essentially in agreement. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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is just a thin veneer that can vanish when there is "no warning voice of a kind neighbor" to whisper of ramifications of ones deeds in the court of public
opinion. In other words, Conrad proposes that it is simply the opinions of others and the sanctions of society that keep men from acting on their baser urges. In
dramatizing this concept, Conrad makes it clear that this thesis applies only to men. The role and nature of women, at least white women, is far different, according to Conrad,
from that of men. According to Conrad, it is the role of women to keep men in line, that is, he pictures women as exerting a civilizing influence on
men that serves to define the boundaries of male behavior. This is an assessment of the workings of gender in civilization to which Virginia Woolf largely agrees. An examination
of Conrads text and Woolfs A Room of Ones Own shows that these two authors reached very similar conclusions about the role of women in society in relationship to men.
Woolf (2002) points out that women have served throughout human history as "looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural
size." This, of course, refers to the way that women have, traditionally, bolstered the ego of the man in their lives. The man performs in the public arena, whether it
is killing buffalo for its hide and meat or earning a wage in a factory, and the woman applauds his efforts, his bravery and his cunning, which is the means
of survival for herself and her children. In many ways, this has proven to be an equitable arrangement, particularly, in those parts of history when a woman needed the strength
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