Perspectives Of Characterism In Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse

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Artists of all mediums offer the public different perspectives of reality and within the multitudinous amount of works, a truth is brought to the attention of the viewer. The truth brings awareness to the masses and changes the means of thinking of the public. Virginia Woolf’s novel, To The Lighthouse, represents a cultural shift in thought from the 19th to the 20th century state of mind by being inspired by the situation of the world at the time and the changes turn of the century brought to humanity by creating a novel that alludes to major revolutions of the time, such as the social, physiological and philosophical, and social revolutions. Woolf does this by creating a new way of expressing thought in writing, and creating characters with …show more content…

His worked inspired others to research upon these theories and inspired artist to include this in their works and provide their own interpretation to his work.
The physiological revolution was mirrored in Woolf’s novel, To the Lighthouse, by not only “[developing] a unique style of writing known as stream of consciousness [writing]” (Virginia Woolf), but also by using the sense of dreams and creating a dream-like state with her manipulation of time. Woolf’s stream of consciousness style of writing originally was debuted in her third novel, Jacob’s Room, but was made popular in her novel, To the Lighthouse. The stream of consciousness style gives the readers a written flow of the character’s thought process, allowing the reader to get a better grasp of the character’s perspective, including memories the characters. The characters often get lost in remembering their past memories as we see as subtle flashbacks and then which they (and the reader included) are then violently jerked back to reality In the

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