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A 5 page essay that analyzes Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Woolf pictures women and men as being both "locked out" and "locked in" by the boundaries of these roles. In exploring the ramifications of this perspective, Woolf shows how writing is not simply an effect of innate talent, but it also related to social conditions, which prescribe educational and financial opportunities. This substantiates Woolf's overall thesis which is that, to write, what is required is "money and a room of one's own" (Woolf chapter 6). No additional sources cited.
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Girton in October of 1928 (Woolf). The paper, being too long to be read in their entirety were subsequently expanded upon by Woolf and turned into her famous essay.
In A Room of Ones Own, Woolf comments: "I thought...of the shut doors of the library; and I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I
thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and the poverty and insecurity of he other and
of the effect of tradition and of the lack tradition upon the mind of the writer" (Woolf chapter 1). As this statement illustrates, Woolfs essay encompasses the complexity
of the social circumstances that have circumscribed the historical gender roles. She pictures women and men as being both "locked out" and "locked in" by the boundaries of these
roles. In exploring the ramifications of this perspective, Woolf shows how writing is not simply an effect of innate talent, but it also related to social conditions, which prescribe educational
and financial opportunities. This substantiates Woolfs overall thesis which is that, to write, what is required is "money and a room of ones own" (Woolf chapter 6). How women
are locked out of the creative heart of society is addressed quite literally by Woolf in her first chapter. The narrator is meditating on the banks of the river at
"Oxbridge," which is fictional name meant to imply both Oxford and Cambridge, neither of which accepted female students in the 1920. She is approached by a security guard, "the Beadle,"
who enforces the rule that women are not allowed on the grass, as only "Fellows and Scholars are allowed here; the gravel is the place for me" (Woolf chapter 1).
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