My views on To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

                 

To the Lighthouse movie clip....

             

Here is my comment on To the Lighthouse.

First I would like to talk about the first question and then about all the questions.
In the first answer I want to say something about ‘Stream of Consciousness’ technique means we can say that its complex narrative technique. This technique is used by modernist writers. Here we can say that Virginia Woolf makes some complex senses 

with her writing. And we find in novel that human relationship is complex in day to day life in Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay’s characters. Writing style  also plays an important role in any work of art. She presents this very well in her writing.
 

I think this novel is more the critique then the tribute of Mrs. Ramsay. Here we find juxtaposition in characters. We know that Woolf try to pilfer away from the Victorian Age belief that “Women can’t write or paint”. In the novel we find one male character who says like this. Here Woolf proves through a character Lily Briscoe who was a young, single painter. She begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay at the beginning of the novel but has trouble in finishing it. But at the end of the novel she completes her painting.

 Lighthouse is a symbol of strength. So here we find two characters which are related with this symbol like Lily and writer herself. And I think in this lighthouse we find two major characters means characters which are very much connected with this novel and we also say that writer portraits herself in the novel. In the novel we find that Lily is also painter. Lily’s character is similar to Virginia Woolf’s sister.

In this novel we find one myth which is related with Oedipus complex. This complex is found in James character who was a youngest son of the Ramsay’. He loves his mother deeply and feels a murderous antipathy toward his father with whom he must compete for Mrs. Ramsay’s love and affection.

As I understand Kunstlerroman novel means ‘novel about growth of an artist’. The Lighthouse is a kunstlerroman novel because here we find two artists growth. In the beginning of the novel we see that Lily started her painting. In the middle of the novel we find that she left her painting and in the end of the novel we find that she completes her novel. Thus here we find that artist’s growth in mind means throughout the time till the end the thinking process continues in her mind.



In the novel we find that James’ desire to go to the lighthouse but till the end he could not do so. And here I agree with it that this novel is more poignant than movie because when we read something that time we imagine so many things with various points of view and in a different way. And we are put in one side and thinking more about our imagination and our feelings, emotion means we realize more and more about novel. The main thing is we can take a pause and in the movie we also take a pause but that’s not getting very interesting. Means whenever we watch movie we are not more connected through our imagination. And second thing is when we watched something that time we can’t imagine so that time our imagination power is also lost.

So this is my vision about all the answer and the novel To the Lighthouse.

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