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A 5 page paper which discusses how Virginia Woolf’s “To The Lighthouse” is both reflective of her life and how she would like her life to have been. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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her eventual suicide. She was considered one of the great writers of her time, and still seems to offer a powerful voice for women today. It seems that Woolfs life
was torn in many directions as she felt a strong pull towards the domestic life, and a powerful pull towards the artistic side of life. One of her most famous
and most popular novels was "To The Lighthouse." The following paper examines how this particular novel depicts something of an autobiographical picture of her life as well as presenting the
reader with a serene and happy life that Woolf may well have desired. Her Life One critic informs us that this particular novel, more than any other of
Woolfs novel, is quite autobiographical in nature. "As is the case with the Ramsays who have eight children, Woolf came from a large family" (Meyer). Apparently the men on both
sides of her family were also quite intellectual: "Woolfs father was the critic Leslie Stephen and the fictional Mr. Ramsay is a philosopher who is working his way through an
advanced sequence of logic" (Meyer). In her childhood we note that the family made regular visits to their holiday home, Talland House, which was on the beach. Woolf has
been quoted as saying, "Probably nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summers in Cornwall...to hear the waves breaking...to dig in the sands; to
scramble over the rocks and see the anemones flourishing their antennae in the pools" (Dore). In "To The Lighthouse" the family visits this lighthouse, and the beach, on a
regular basis and it is essentially the foundation of their happiness in many ways. They speak of going to the lighthouse, enjoying time at the lighthouse, and see that the
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