An Analysis Of Mrs. Dalloway And To The Lighthouse

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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
At first, feminism starts with the feminist movement which is activated ecumenically in the 1960's, and it is one of the thoughts which have been actively discussed and studied in not only the field of literature but all kinds of fields. Therefore, many critics such as Elaine Showalter(1977), Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar(1984) analyze many works of various writers from the feminist point of view, and many writers are accounted as the feminist or the anti-feminist. However feminism has a wide diversity of views and some vigorous debates, and it is also often satirized by the anti-feminist, so those critics cannot define some works as feminist or anti-feminist literature according to the …show more content…

Prior to her, female characters are described as the image of sexual objects, wife or mother. However, Woolf as a woman in the anti-female society, so she tries to show the real life and identity of women in Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse, which I choose for this thesis. Female characters are described as women under the patriarchal system, not independent women, but both female characters have their own identity and view of life. Woolf chooses to fight against culture and society in the male-centered literature world by the way of …show more content…

The third chapter will be focused on the analysis of female characters in Hemingway and Woolf's works. There are four female characters to analyze— "Brett" in The Sun Also Rises, "Catherine" in A Farewell to Arms, "Clarissa" in Mrs. Dalloway and "Mrs. Ramsay" in To The Lighthouse. I am going to analyze these female characters from neither the feminist or the opponents' view, but the androgynous perspective, because both Hemingway and Woolf show the androgynous mind in their works. In the last section of this chapter, I will find out the similarity and difference between four female characters by comparing four characters

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