To the Lighthouse

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• Virginia Woolf–TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

  Note: This novel is ranked #15 on Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels: “For now [Mrs. Ramsay] need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of—to think; well, not even to think. To be silen ... (read full critics)

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  To the Lighthouse is a novel written by Virginia Woolf. the story is center on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. we can divided this into three different parts: the first is "the window"; the second is "Time Passes"; and the last is "the lighthouse".
  in the novel ... (continue)

  To the Lighthouse is a novel written by Virginia Woolf. the story is center on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. we can divided this into three different parts: the first is "the window"; the second is "Time Passes"; and the last is "the lighthouse".
  in the novel there is an omniscent narrator exept in the second part in which is described ten years and is represented the link between the first and the third section.
  the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, in fact the most important aspect in the novel is the psychological element.
  The novel includes little dialogue, observations and almost no action.

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  The main element of the novel, is the lighthouse that serves as a symbol:in fact the contrast and the alternation between darkness and light represent the differents aspects of life.The sea too,has a symbolical meaning: in fact in the first part,its positive aspects reflect and symbolize the positiv ... (continue)

  The main element of the novel, is the lighthouse that serves as a symbol:in fact the contrast and the alternation between darkness and light represent the differents aspects of life.The sea too,has a symbolical meaning: in fact in the first part,its positive aspects reflect and symbolize the positive situation of the characters, while its destructive aspects symbolize the sadness that afflicted the family.

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  Flappi92 said on May 3, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  "The first thing we notice about Virginia Woolf's style, I suspect, is the extraordinary sentence structure. The second paragraph of her "To the Lighthouse" contains a sentence of 260 words, a sentence which, in effect, is a single complex sentence of 32 words enormously embellished by parenthetical ... (continue)

  "The first thing we notice about Virginia Woolf's style, I suspect, is the extraordinary sentence structure. The second paragraph of her "To the Lighthouse" contains a sentence of 260 words, a sentence which, in effect, is a single complex sentence of 32 words enormously embellished by parenthetical phrases and clauses, modifying phrases, and a whole rich array of various grammatical constructions. These hold up the full meaning of the sentence and transform it from something clear and straightforward into something delayed, qualified, uncertain, and (for the reader) much more difficult to assimilate." Ian Johnston in a lecture delivered in Liberal Studies on Thursday, March 2, 1995, describes Virgina Woolf amazing style with these words. In my opinion the difficulty in assimilation becomes easier if one understands her deep meanings. To the Lighthouse is a lamentation of loss and grief for beloved, dead parents. It is also about the English class structure and its radical break with Victorianism. The reader's struggle here is to establish as major point the idea that what links Woolf to other modernists is the way in which her style compels us to recognize a fundamental problem of modern life: the deep and apparently unbridgeable dichotomy between the fragmented inner world of the self and any sense of coherent order to the world beyond the self, that is, the world of human relationships, of nature, of society as a totality.

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  venus said on Nov 30, 2009 | 2 feedbacks

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  I've just bought it on Amazon for my next exam at University. This won't be my first attempt with this book, which I find interesting but also very difficult at the same time. Wish me luck ;)

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  Lilacwhisper said on Aug 28, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece. Woolf rejected some of the main conventions of the realistic fiction of the Victorian age and she developed a new way to represent reality: through the mental proccesses of the characters. Woolf uses flashbacks, symbols and impressions. The external ... (continue)

  To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece. Woolf rejected some of the main conventions of the realistic fiction of the Victorian age and she developed a new way to represent reality: through the mental proccesses of the characters. Woolf uses flashbacks, symbols and impressions. The external events of the journey to the lighthouse is the counterpart of an internal journey of self-awareness of the main characters. The novel is divided into three parts: “The Window,” “Time Passes,” and “The Lighthouse.”

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  Ale1041 said on Jun 5, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• To the lighthouse

  "To the lighthouse" is a quite complex book , but, at the same time, interesting. It is a very modern work, for the period in which it was written. Virginia Wolf focused her attention on psychological analysis of the characters; Innovative is the use of the stream of consciousness, which seeks to po ... (continue)

  "To the lighthouse" is a quite complex book , but, at the same time, interesting. It is a very modern work, for the period in which it was written. Virginia Wolf focused her attention on psychological analysis of the characters; Innovative is the use of the stream of consciousness, which seeks to portray an individual's point of view .

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  Babygirl21 said on May 3, 2011 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 328 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0192834134
• ISBN-13: 9780192834133
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Press
• Pub date: Apr 02, 1998
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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