The Impact of Social Idealogy on Virginia Woolfs To The Lighthouse Ess

The Impact of fond Idealogy on Woolfs To the Lighthouse Throughout literature the ideology of the society in which the author was living is evident in the text. This can cause current groups inside a text to be empowered while the new(prenominal) groups are marginalised and constrained by the hearty restrictions placed upon them by the ideology. In the new To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Woolf shows us an awareness of gender governance during the 1920s Britain by subverting the traditional gender roles but at the equal time naturalises notions of class causing certain groups to be constrained. In the novel Woolf subverts the patriarchial portrayal of feminism with the character of Lily Brascoe. Lily is constructed as an independent character who defies the congenital beleifs of how a woman should act. She does this through her actions in a different title despite Mr Tansleys assertion that women cant write, women cant paint and refuses to marry even thoug h it was a popular printing that all women should marry as an unmarried woman has missed the lift out of life. Instead Lily thought that that she did not need to marry, thank heaven she did not need to undergo that degradation. Woolf applauds this attitude, as at the completion of the novel, Lily is bingle of the few characters who has achieved fulfilment or in her case the completion of a painting begun ten years prior. Yet although the character of Lily and her decisions are applauded in the text, Lily is only enabled to have such an attitude because of her status as a member of the wealthier class. In the novel, class is viewed more as a auspicious structure for the common good than as a structure in which the members of the higher ... ...t notions of class, class and gender were so closely intertwined that men and women of wealthier classes within the text were often privileged while those of the lower class found themselves constrained by the gender roles p ertaining to them. This is often the case as in a particular ideology, as gender roles vary for different social background. Works Cited and Consulted Jameson, Fredric. Social Idealogy in Woolfs To the Lighthouse Twentieth Century Literature, run 1994 v40 n1 p15. Latham, Jacqueline, ed. Critics on Virginia Woolf. Florida University of Miami Press, 1970. OBrien Schaefer, Josephine. Reality in the Novels of Virginia Woolf. The Hague Mouton and Co., 1965, pp. 111-13, 118-25. (Latham, pg. 72-78). Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Introduction by D.M. Hoare, Ph.D. capital of the United Kingdom J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1960