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To The Lighthouse
1. Stream of consciousness is a technique which was first coined by William James. In this Stream of consciousness technique the story develops through the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. This technique is too hard to understand the novel at the first reading. This technique deals with the tracing a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings. Moreover; Virginia Woolf uses this technique in her novel to highlight ideas, feelings and thoughts of people deliberately. Here Virginia Woolf depicts this technique to show the inner chaos of the common people by this novel. Moreover, her narrative technique can be categorized as complex one, which indicates several features as enlisted below
• Complexities of human relationships
• Scuffle of women in the society etc.
2. Yes, I agree with the question that this novel is the tribute as well as critique of Mrs Ramsay as she is a round character, who remains the same from the initial part to end. Further we can say that Mrs Ramsay and Lily Briscoe’s relationship is first introduced artistically. Lily has been working on painting a picture of Mrs Ramsay, who is a hard subject to paint considering how much she is always distracted by her role as mother. The painting always slips Mrs Ramsay’s mind as being unimportant. Therefore Lily Briscoe is the mouth figure of Virginia Woolf through this character Woolf wants to say that women can paint and write as earlier was the belief that women cannot paint and write. Therefore Virginia Woolf describes the character of Lily Briscoe by putting her in to the novel.
3. It depends upon our individual perspective. Lighthouse stands for Mrs Ramsay or narrator and The Lighthouse can be indicated as a Symbol of Ramsay’s Family. Here Woolf present in the character of Lily Briscoe. We can say that Woolf was present herself throughout the novel “To the lighthouse”. We also see that through Lily’s character Woolf also presents the strength. And we can also say that family problem is not so painful rather than social problems. Therefore this novel can be a symbol of the family.
4. Joseph Blonter has given two types of myths, which are patterned together as given below
• Pagan Myth
• Oedipus myth.
The Pagan myth includes mothers, daughters and wife. In this myth Rhea is presented as a mother, Demeter is indicated as a wife and Persephone is shown as a daughter. If we connect this myth with Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse”, it is (Rhea,Demeter,Wife) presented in only one character that is Mrs Ramsay.This myth shows the womanhood in modernist literature. However in Post-colonial literature it was known as an ‘Ideal Womanhood’. Oedipus myth is presented in the characters like Mrs Ramsay and James. He has attraction towards Mrs Ramsay.This both myths are represented unconsciously in this novel and the female phallic symbol is ‘The Window’. How male phallic symbols are connected with Mrs Ramsay.
5. To The Lighthouse is a type of ‘Kunstlerroman’novel.Here ‘Kunstlerroman’ means growth of an artist. Here we can find that growth of an artist through the character of lily Briscoe. In other words we may say that struggle of an artist. In the novel Lily’s character is a struggle of an artist.so in this novel the character of Lily makes this novel a ‘Kunstlerroman’.
6. In this question I am agree with that this novel is more poignant than movie because when we watched movie at that time we couldn't imagine more about the character, situation, location etc. so we may say that after watching movie we faced some restriction. And when we read this novel we imagine through our self as we imagine characters, place with the help of our imagination.
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