Virginia Woolf and Works as Mediums of Feminism



             Virginia Woolf did not only excel in writing issues concerning feminism, but also in other topics that perhaps made her believable and admirable to people. Thus, her talent in the art of writing became a means for her views to be heard including feminism that has influenced many people.

             Discussing further on the aspect of Woolf's talent in writing, that has been one of the reasons why her views and perceptions concerning feminism have created a big hit to the masses, can be proven by the following note about Woolf (Susan Dick).

             She has been praised, for example, for her contribution to biographical criticism, for her emphasis on the importance of a writer's historical and social context, and for the ways in which she explores the art of writing itself, not only in the content of her essays but also in their form and language.

             Further, Susan Dick, from an online article, indicated the following characteristic of Woolf's writings, proving the power of her art as a writer.

             The form of her critical writing, mixing as it often does imaginative, fictional construction with more traditional discursive prose, has received increased attention in the 1980s and 1990s.

             Woolf's wide knowledge of history has perhaps gave way to her criticisms that concerns the role of women in society. A few of her masterpieces, such as A Room of One's Own, Women and Fiction, Three Guineas, and the Professions of Women, have tackled issues on the living and work conditions of women as compared to that of the male genders (Virginia Woolf Online). Her wide perspective that history had brought her helped her assess numerous issues, both of the past's and the contemporary's. One example is the patriarchal form of education that excludes women, as well as that refuses to recognize the ability of women. In A Room of One's Own, Woolf had forcefully revealed this issue, wherein a female writer was metaphorically depicted to have the right of having money and her own room, and had caused many women of the time to be awaken by the discrimination of the society.

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