Essay - Literature Room of One's Own Room of One's Own by...

Literature

***** of One's Own

Room of ***** Own by Virginia Woolf is based upon lectures that the author has given in 1928 at a women's college at Cambridge University. ***** here gives her thoughts on ***** questi***** of women and fiction. The work is approached from the po*****t of view of a first-person female narrator who researches the history ***** ***** and the things that *****y have written.

In this way the unique position of women in the art ***** writ*****g is illuminated through a consider*****tion of society and economy. Women during the centuries prior to 1928 were seldom given ***** opportunity to develop intellectually. They were in fact actively discouraged from such activities in favor of more "womanly" pursuits such as child rearing and housekeeping. This left the female gender with little time in which ***** write or even to think significant thoughts, despite whatever natural intelligence they may ***** been endowed with.

***** is then why Woolf emp*****izes *****, in order to write, a woman needs a room of her own and financial independence. These stand for liberation. In this ***** the liberation ***** the body is most important to ***** ***** of the mind and the soul. Because ***** mind and soul of a wom*****n are different from those of a man, women have a unique contribution to make to the world ***** literature.

Thus, although denied access ***** the intellectual resources that men were privy to ***** centuries, wo***** as c*****givers and homemakers, as well as in their capacity as fighters aga*****st poverty and domination, ***** learned to find for themselves a room of their own. Men do not know the particular hardships that *****men had to go through in ***** ***** reach ***** intellectual goals. Such ***** have perhaps honed *****ir skill of writing to a degree th*****t persons who did ***** struggle would fail to achieve. So in answer to the question of whether a wo***** could ***** the s*****me quality ***** ***** as Shakespeare, the ***** is a resounding