Thursday, October 18, 2007

HW#21 A womens room

HW#21
What was Virginia Woolf really talking about when she wrote the book A Room Of One's Own? Well that is a really good question, but is there really a good answer? I think only the reader can answer that question, every person can interpret that righting for themselves and it isn't going to be exactly the same as another person who read the same thing. My interpretation of the first chapter in Virginia Woolf's book A Room Of One's Own might not be the same as yours but that doesn't mean that either of them are wrong, it just means that they are different. I believe that when she is talking about being by the river and the fishermen and how if they catch a fish that is to small they put it back, I think she is really talking about thoughts of a fiction righter. If you are thinking of something to wright you come up with a thought and you let it grow you can't just use the first thing that comes into your head, you have to let it grow. You can let it grow by thinking of it often and coming up with new ideas , but you must do it in the right spot. A women fiction righter must have her own money to spend and a room of her own to wright in, she can not be walking around on the turf of Oxford. While walking you think of many things you could be righting about but if you are a women of the that time period you don't have the right to walk where ever you want to, you can't walk on the turf of Oxford you may only walk on the gravel, and you may not enter the library without the presents of a man. How the times have changed. Maybe this is what Virginia is trying to get us to realize, times change.

2 comments:

Tracy Mendham said...

Yes, Woolf's first chapter is about the fragility of thought and women and writing...also, the comparison of Oxbridge and Cambridge shows the differece in men's and women's access to education, tradition, and money.

Tracy Mendham said...

Is HW 22 in the works?