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A 5 page paper
which examines the journey to the lighthouse, in Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse"
and finds symbolic implications. In regards to the journey the paper focuses on what was
attempted and what was achieved. No additional sources cited.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAlghths.rtf
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"To The Lighthouse" By Julie A. Rodgers - November 2001 -- properly! Introduction In Virginia Woolfs story
"To The Lighthouse" we are offered a woman who has the ability to bind people to her, a way of encouraging people around her, and a way of instilling
the need to understand such things. He presence and her beliefs are crucial to the story and the journey to the lighthouse, despite the fact that she is physically dead
by the time the family actually makes the journey to the lighthouse. She stands as the primary reason they finally take the journey, one long awaited by many. In the
following paper we examine this trip to the lighthouse, focusing on what was attempted and achieved and the symbolic representation within. Attempted and Achieved One of the
most obvious things attempted, and then achieved is the painting of Lily. In order to understand the symbolic nature of her achievement we need to go back to the beginning,
however, and discuss the character of Lily and Mrs. Ramsay. Mrs. Ramsay represents the ideal mother and wife, a woman of nurturing and a woman of some magical connection
to the earth it would seem. When seen in this perspective we can note the influence she had upon such people as Lily. Lily was looking for the truth
as it related to her own life, and she felt that Mrs. Ramsay may well have that answer for she "knew knowledge and wisdom were stored in Mrs. Ramsays heart"
(Woolf 57). However, Mrs. Ramsay believed that marriage and children were the true pursuit of any woman, although she also believed that Lily may never marry: With her little Chinese
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