Feminism In Virginia Woolf

In the twentieth century women did not have many rights. Women were expected to stay at home and do housework, cook food, have babies, and take care of them. Women was not supposed to be writers, Virginia Woolf and many other women overcame that standard. Virginia Woolf became a writer during this time and wrote about something she deeply cared about, feminism. Woolf’s work highlights women’s work, who does not have the rights or enough money to use it. In Woolf’s writing she expects that women will have a better future ahead of them. Virginia Woolf wrote hundreds of short essays. She revised a literary history that tried to recover women’s lost voices (Cuervo). She would use metaphors of inferiority in her story’s like A Room of One’s Own:

Men back in the twentieth century labeled women as an object because the women did not have rights and the men could care less about a woman that was lower than him. “If we see Woolf as a woman defined as object struggling to become and to remain subject, the portent of her character’s struggles becomes clearer” (Lyon 96). As Woolf continues to write she can relate to all of her characters, she understands how it feels to be treated like you are worth nothing and she is trying to get everyone that reads her stories to realize what she is trying to say to the public. “Woolf was embittered by her exclusion from pursuits that were traditionally masculine and was enraged by the masculine supposition that women were morally inferior to men. Her case for women, contained in the 1929 extended essay, A Room of One's Own, is double. In order effectively to write fiction, Woolf argued, a woman must have two things: money and a room of her own” (Brody8). Woolf believes that woman is equally the same as men are or we would be if given the chance (Brody 9). Woolf wants to let readers know that men and woman are equal no matter what. Woolf clearly states her argument in all her short stories. She may not try to present them all at one time but over the time you

Even with her own limits and the public limits, Woolf never gave up on her writing. Virginia left a legacy for women to look up to. She is a strong, independent, fearless woman who went against the normal so she could become a writer. Even though critics may disagree with everything she says and stands for. “The effect of thee repressions is still clearly to be traced in women’s work, and the effect is wholly to the bad” (Johnson 25). Virginia gave the women writers confidence to be who they are and write angry about what is happening in the world. She did not succeed before she passed, everyone started reading her works after she passed and that is when she succeeded. She failed time after time, but she never gave up on the truth and what she believed in. She cared enough for herself and every woman she was out there fighting for to get the chance to be equal like a man. She set her goal high and she met her goal. Woolf wanted women to be educated. Virginia did not live long enough to see the change in the world, she got ill and had passed