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This 5 page paper looks at Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and the author's exploration into gender differences. Changes in respect to women in society are also briefly discussed. No additional sources cited.
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be money for one, and a room of ones own as another. Yet, the author means the latter both figuratively and literally and what ensues as the book unfolds is
a comment on society about women as well as a comment on fiction in general and how women are portrayed in it. She examines characters in addition to real women
writers, noting that women had for many decades been portrayed by men, and further, that they really were not given the freedom to come into their own. To do so,
one would have to have the proper freedom from societal influence, as well as from ones own constraints. The women are supposed to darn the clothing, cook the meals, raise
the children and so forth. There is little time left to pursue creative endeavors. Woolf portrays the womans condition as something that is changing, but something that needs to be
changed significantly in order for females to thrive. An early feminist, Woolfs attitude towards women is actually healthy. She is by no means radical, but does point out that until
women have the essentials of life, and enough privacy, they cannot realize their own writing ambitions. When Woolf says that a female writer needs a room of
ones own, she means this both figuratively and literally. She says: "All I could do was to offer you an opinion on one minor point--a woman must have money and
a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true
nature of fiction unsolved" (Woolf 4). That is her thesis in a nutshell and while she states something valuable, she is utterly confused and really makes no conclusions. To Woolf,
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