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A 3 page essay that examines Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Woolf once wrote in her diary "One stable moment vanquishes chaos." In this novel, two characters -- James Ramsey and Lily Briscoe -- have such a moment near the end of the work. This one illuminating moment, for each character, ties up the past and illuminates the future. No additional sources cited.
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general character of daily life. Woolf once wrote in her diary "One stable moment vanquishes chaos." In this novel, two characters -- James Ramsey and Lily Briscoe -- have such
a moment near the end of the work. This one illuminating moment, for each character, ties up the past and illuminates the future. At the beginning of the novel,
James is a young child spending the summer with his family with his large family at their vacation house in the Hebrides. The focus of this section is largely on
James mother. Mrs. Ramsey is the "glue" that holds her large family together. The mother of eight, she is also her husbands emotional support. Mr. Ramsey is the stereotypical, tyrannical
Victorian father, expecting his wifes attention whenever he needs it, brusque with his children, yet, incredibly needy on an emotional level. Lily Briscoe is also present on the summer
holiday, as a friend of the family. James expresses his desire to visit the lighthouse. His mother asserts that they will undoubtedly make such an excursion, but his father bluntly
insists that the weather will turn foul and make such a trip impossible. James is hurt by his fathers insistence that a trip to the lighthouse is impossible. Woolf
uses this seemingly trivial incident to delineate the nature of the relationships of the Ramsey family. Mrs. Ramsey is not so much concerned with truth as she is her young
sons desire. It seems to her rude to insistent that his wish is impossible when he clearly wants it badly. When it comes to emotions, Mrs. Ramsey is unfailingly right.
James sees his fathers blunt statement of fact as a rejection of his significance. Woolf comments that if there had been an "axe handy, a poker, or any weapon that
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