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This was a part of my thinking activity which was given by Dilip sir. Here is the Sir's blog link ;
https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/09/worksheet-virginia-woolfs-to-lighthouse.html?m=1
To the lighthouse novel by Virginia Woolf .
• To the lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf.The novel's centres is on the Ramsay family and their visits of the isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.It was written in stream of consciousness.Here the title is also concerned as a symbol.Tone of the novel is Elegiac,poetic, rhythmic and imaginative .
" Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged ; life is a luminous halo,a semi - transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end ."
- Virginia Woolf
• Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer,considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.Woolf was educated by her parents in their literate and we'll - connected household.she belong to a very good and high class still she is doing rebel .She was also a part of Bloom's berry group.Her life was a full of courage and stoicism.she is writing in stream of consciousness.she was concerned as excitement,pain, horror,beauty of daily event.she was attracted towards Industrialization,she use to write on shopping.she has a trivia of everybody's life, about every moment.politically she was writing for women,for education and for job.woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life,thought to have been the result of what is new termed bi-polar disorder and committed suicide by drowning herself in 1941 at the very young age.
Very feminist work of that time :-
• A Room of one's own.
• To the lighthouse
• Mrs. Dalloway
• The voyage out
• To the lighthouse is divided into three sections:-
1. " The window"
2. " Time passes "
3. " The lighthouse".
• Mrs. Ramsay is the central focus of the beginning of the lighthouse. The novel opens just before the start of World War 1. It has thin plot.great kind of event does not happened." SHUT A DOOR" this line keeps on coming. During the whole novel nothing important happens.There is a connection between story & Stream of thoughts.
∆ Now, let's talk about some questions and answers which were the part of my thinking activity.
Que :- 1] How can you explain that 'what' Virginia Woolf wanted to say (for example, the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, the struggle of a female artist against the values of middle/upper class society etc) can only be said in the way she has said? (Key: The 'How' of the narrative technique is to be discussed along with features of Stream of Consciousness technique which helps Woolf to put in effective manner what she experienced in abstractions.)
Ans :- As we know that she is writing in stream of consciousness and her life was a full of courage and stoicism .As she belongs to a very good family still she feels like she has not getting something which her brother is getting.She fights for all women of that time.It was very difficult to raise our voice against anyone specially infront of Men. Woolf's husband has his own press which was a very good things and she can write easily.She can do easily experiment.she basically writing about radical things.So,here we can see the struggle of a female artist against male person or everyone .
Que : - 2] Do you agree: "The novel is both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay"? (Key: Take some clues from the painting of Mrs Ramsay drawn by Lily Briscoe and the article by Andre Viola and Glenn Pedersen. Can we read Mrs. R in context of the idea of Ideal Indian Woman - Karyeshu dasi, Karaneshu manthri; Bhojeshu mata, Shayaneshu rambha; Kshamayeshu dharithri, Roopeshu lakshmi; Satkarma yukta, Kuladharma pathni. )
Ans :- Yes, I am agree with that the novel is the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay. So, firstly Mrs. Ramsay was the soul of the house.she likes to take care of all family members, about their food, specially to care about guests. She is the lively element of the house.Lily Briscoe who don't like this all things.she is always arguing with Mrs.Ramsay but in a way she wants to take place of her .she want to be like Mrs. Ramsay.When at the end of the movie,we see the painting of lily Briscoe at that time we realise that Mrs. Ramsay is everything of house which lily also accept at the end.Through the character of lily we can see both side of Mrs, Ramsay ; good or positive as well as negative side.
Que :- 3 ] Considering symbolically, does the Lighthouse stand for Mrs. Ramsay or the narrator (Virginia Woolf herself who is categorically represented by Lily)? (Key: Take help from the presentation on Symbolism to connect Mrs. Caroline Ramsay with Lighthouse. Secondly, the narrator / author cannot fully disappear from the novel and thus the stoicism of Lily to paint and thus prove that she can paint, is symbolically presented in stoicism of Lighthouse. Read 'lighthouse' symbol from presentation slide with this insight to connect lighthouse with the narrator. Give your concluding remarks in the comment below in this blog )
Ans : Mrs, Caroline Ramsay stands as guiding star and harbours emotional safety to other family/ guest members visiting summer house .she is the spiritual bridge between other humans in the novel.She is stands strong like the lighthouse amidst emotionally shattered beings .since the beginning of the movie lily Briscoe is started painting but she can't complete,she doesn't get view or visual to draw. At the end she get visual ,she has completed the painting but with the Mrs,Ramsay.Mrs, Ramsay is her visual , Without Mrs,Ramsay the painting is not metaphorically as the element of water represents the emotions ,the lighthouse is a symbol for the spiritual strength and emotional guidance which is available to us during the times we feel we are being helplessly tossed around in a sea of inner turmoil.
Que :- 4 ] In the article by Joseph Blotner, two myths are patterned together. Name the myths? How they are zeroed down to the symbols of 'Window' and 'Lighthouse'? How does the male phallic symbol represent feminine Mrs. Ramsay? (Key: The strokes of light-beams. . . )
Two Myths are :
1. Myth of oedipus ;
killed his father and married with his mother. So here James character portrait as like father hated child, Virginia Woolf use stream of consciousness technique when James mind portrait father hated son.
2. Cronus afraid of his death because of his father curse his child killed him that why Cronus killed his children but at last once day Rhea didn’t give child and that child grown up knowingly his name Zeus, Zeus killed his father as per his mother wish and again cycling continues father killed by his son.
Que : - 5 ] What do you understand by the German term 'Künstlerroman'? How can you justify that 'To The Lighthouse' is 'Künstlerroman' novel?
Ans : According to Offered dictionary meaning,The German term (meaning ‘artist-novel’) for a novel in which the central character is an artist of any kind, e.g. the musical composer Leverkühn in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947), or the painter Lantier in Zola's L'Oeuvre (1886). ... In novel this meaning is connected with Lily Briscoe because she was an artist,and lot of talk about her paintings is done in novel .At the end her skill of artist came out with her paintings.
Que. : - 6] "... the wages of obedience is death, and the daughter that reproduces mothering to perfection, including child-bearing, already has on her cheeks the pallor of death. One reminded here of various texts by Lucy Irigaray, in which she attacks mothers for being, however unwillingly, accomplices in the patriarchal system of oppression." (Viola). In light of this remark, explain briefly Lily's dilemma in 'To The Lighthouse'.
Ans :- Lily Briscoe's dilemma in ' To the lighthouse' is because of she was against of Mrs, Ramsay.She is believing that as Mrs, Ramsay is not living a good and satisfied life ,she is living for others,for family,for to take care of people.Lily is not believing that Mrs, Ramsay can be a part of painting,she is thinking how she can be visual of her paintings,why she is the soul of the house.
Que :- 7 ] You have compared the 'beginning' and the 'ending' of the novel and the film adaptation of the novel directed by Colin Gregg (you can see it again in the embedded video below this). Do you think that the novel is more poignant than the movie? If yes, do you ascribe the fact that the power of words is much greater than that of the screen / visuals?
Ans : The beginning of the movie and Novel are different.we need to aware or to read original novel before watching movie.Story doesn't start same in both. But the ending was same in movie and novel .it ends with Lily Briscoe's painting.According to me Movie was more apply to understand plot, character, concept of the novel .we more understand with visualisation. In the movie the camera angle was very good .
Que : - 8 ]How do you interpret the last line of the novel (It was done; it was finished.
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.) with reference to the ending of the film (After the final stroke on the canvass with finishing touch, Lily walks inside the house. As she goes ante-chamber, the light and dark shade makes his face play hide-and-seek. She climbs stairs, puts her brush aside, walks through the dark and light to enter her room. Gently closes the door - speaks: "Closed doors, open windows" - lies on the bed and with some sort of satisfaction utters: "Dearest Briscoe, you are a fool".)
Ans :- After the final stroke on the canvas with finishing touch,lily walks inside the house,goes into ante - chamber, some light and dark shades are playing hide and seek with her face.She said to Mrs,Ramsay that you are fool ,look without family, without getting married I can live alone happily, I can paint.At the end he completes her paintings.She proves himself infront of Mrs,Ramsay.
Que :- 9 ] What does the catalogue named as 'Army and Navy' signify? What does cutting of 'Refrigerator' signify?
Ans :- maybe it was a symbol of change,of Changing technology.james ,son of Mr and Mrs. Ramsay who is also in army and he died. James is guided in his choice by Mrs. Ramsay and it should therefore be associated with her.Mrs, Ramsay is repeatedly shown as someone who is training and shaking her children's minds and her approach to her son's.she wants her daughter and the women around her to support and sustain men,while she wants the men to be a success in the public sphere.
Que :- 10 ] Why did Virginia give such prominence to the tale of the “Fisherman’s Wife”? In particular, why did she weave such a misogynist tale into the fabric of a book which so eloquently challenges received patriarchal notions about the roles and capabilities of women?
Ans :- Here in novel Mrs,Ramsay is reading story of " Fisherman's wife" and in novel Virginia Woolf portrayed the character of Mrs,Ramsay and her opposite character Lily Briscoe. Virginia wants to draw the picture of women characters at different way,with different perspective.
Que :- 11 ] How is India represented in 'To The Lighthouse'?
Ans :- so, through the character of Mrs,Ramsay India is represented as a ldiol and good housewife,caring wife.she is always pampers her husband's ego and attitude.She also always take care of children and guest also.she is a perfect image of an Indian daughter in law.
Que :- 12] Write summaries of this articles ?
• There are three article like ;
1. Mythical pattern in " To the lighthouse " by Joseph L. Blotner
• This article deal with Greek myth.
• Here Mrs, Ramsay is proved as a lighthouse at the lighthouse was constant and stable.
• Mrs,Ramsay is a 'giver' always and Mr,Ramsay was 'Taker ' always.
• According to Sigmund Freud,male was lighthouse,but according to Karl Yung,female was a lighthouse.
2. Fluidity V/S Masculinity by Andre Viola.
• This article shows the character of Lily.so ,lily was at the centre.Through the character of Mrs,Ramsay we can see the patriarch society. As lily don't like Mrs,Ramsay so both are arguing always against eachother.It is Kunstel Roman's novel,it shows lily Briscoe's journey.This also representing Woolf's life and Briscoe's painting.
3. Vision to the lighthouse :-
This article was a quite different from novel.Here Mrs, Ramsay is Matriarch. When she was alive there was not good relationship between father and son. After the death of Mrs,Ramsay they meet and Lily Briscoe also get her vision.
Thank you.......
This was a part of my thinking activity which was given by Dilip sir. Here is the Sir's blog link ;
https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/09/worksheet-virginia-woolfs-to-lighthouse.html?m=1
To the lighthouse novel by Virginia Woolf .
• To the lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf.The novel's centres is on the Ramsay family and their visits of the isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.It was written in stream of consciousness.Here the title is also concerned as a symbol.Tone of the novel is Elegiac,poetic, rhythmic and imaginative .
" Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged ; life is a luminous halo,a semi - transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end ."
- Virginia Woolf
About Virginia Woolf :-
• Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer,considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.Woolf was educated by her parents in their literate and we'll - connected household.she belong to a very good and high class still she is doing rebel .She was also a part of Bloom's berry group.Her life was a full of courage and stoicism.she is writing in stream of consciousness.she was concerned as excitement,pain, horror,beauty of daily event.she was attracted towards Industrialization,she use to write on shopping.she has a trivia of everybody's life, about every moment.politically she was writing for women,for education and for job.woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life,thought to have been the result of what is new termed bi-polar disorder and committed suicide by drowning herself in 1941 at the very young age.
Very feminist work of that time :-
• A Room of one's own.
• To the lighthouse
• Mrs. Dalloway
• The voyage out
• To the lighthouse is divided into three sections:-
1. " The window"
2. " Time passes "
3. " The lighthouse".
• Mrs. Ramsay is the central focus of the beginning of the lighthouse. The novel opens just before the start of World War 1. It has thin plot.great kind of event does not happened." SHUT A DOOR" this line keeps on coming. During the whole novel nothing important happens.There is a connection between story & Stream of thoughts.
∆ Now, let's talk about some questions and answers which were the part of my thinking activity.
Que :- 1] How can you explain that 'what' Virginia Woolf wanted to say (for example, the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, the struggle of a female artist against the values of middle/upper class society etc) can only be said in the way she has said? (Key: The 'How' of the narrative technique is to be discussed along with features of Stream of Consciousness technique which helps Woolf to put in effective manner what she experienced in abstractions.)
Ans :- As we know that she is writing in stream of consciousness and her life was a full of courage and stoicism .As she belongs to a very good family still she feels like she has not getting something which her brother is getting.She fights for all women of that time.It was very difficult to raise our voice against anyone specially infront of Men. Woolf's husband has his own press which was a very good things and she can write easily.She can do easily experiment.she basically writing about radical things.So,here we can see the struggle of a female artist against male person or everyone .
Que : - 2] Do you agree: "The novel is both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay"? (Key: Take some clues from the painting of Mrs Ramsay drawn by Lily Briscoe and the article by Andre Viola and Glenn Pedersen. Can we read Mrs. R in context of the idea of Ideal Indian Woman - Karyeshu dasi, Karaneshu manthri; Bhojeshu mata, Shayaneshu rambha; Kshamayeshu dharithri, Roopeshu lakshmi; Satkarma yukta, Kuladharma pathni. )
Ans :- Yes, I am agree with that the novel is the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay. So, firstly Mrs. Ramsay was the soul of the house.she likes to take care of all family members, about their food, specially to care about guests. She is the lively element of the house.Lily Briscoe who don't like this all things.she is always arguing with Mrs.Ramsay but in a way she wants to take place of her .she want to be like Mrs. Ramsay.When at the end of the movie,we see the painting of lily Briscoe at that time we realise that Mrs. Ramsay is everything of house which lily also accept at the end.Through the character of lily we can see both side of Mrs, Ramsay ; good or positive as well as negative side.
Que :- 3 ] Considering symbolically, does the Lighthouse stand for Mrs. Ramsay or the narrator (Virginia Woolf herself who is categorically represented by Lily)? (Key: Take help from the presentation on Symbolism to connect Mrs. Caroline Ramsay with Lighthouse. Secondly, the narrator / author cannot fully disappear from the novel and thus the stoicism of Lily to paint and thus prove that she can paint, is symbolically presented in stoicism of Lighthouse. Read 'lighthouse' symbol from presentation slide with this insight to connect lighthouse with the narrator. Give your concluding remarks in the comment below in this blog )
Ans : Mrs, Caroline Ramsay stands as guiding star and harbours emotional safety to other family/ guest members visiting summer house .she is the spiritual bridge between other humans in the novel.She is stands strong like the lighthouse amidst emotionally shattered beings .since the beginning of the movie lily Briscoe is started painting but she can't complete,she doesn't get view or visual to draw. At the end she get visual ,she has completed the painting but with the Mrs,Ramsay.Mrs, Ramsay is her visual , Without Mrs,Ramsay the painting is not metaphorically as the element of water represents the emotions ,the lighthouse is a symbol for the spiritual strength and emotional guidance which is available to us during the times we feel we are being helplessly tossed around in a sea of inner turmoil.
Que :- 4 ] In the article by Joseph Blotner, two myths are patterned together. Name the myths? How they are zeroed down to the symbols of 'Window' and 'Lighthouse'? How does the male phallic symbol represent feminine Mrs. Ramsay? (Key: The strokes of light-beams. . . )
Two Myths are :
1. Myth of oedipus ;
killed his father and married with his mother. So here James character portrait as like father hated child, Virginia Woolf use stream of consciousness technique when James mind portrait father hated son.
2. Cronus afraid of his death because of his father curse his child killed him that why Cronus killed his children but at last once day Rhea didn’t give child and that child grown up knowingly his name Zeus, Zeus killed his father as per his mother wish and again cycling continues father killed by his son.
Que : - 5 ] What do you understand by the German term 'Künstlerroman'? How can you justify that 'To The Lighthouse' is 'Künstlerroman' novel?
Ans : According to Offered dictionary meaning,The German term (meaning ‘artist-novel’) for a novel in which the central character is an artist of any kind, e.g. the musical composer Leverkühn in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947), or the painter Lantier in Zola's L'Oeuvre (1886). ... In novel this meaning is connected with Lily Briscoe because she was an artist,and lot of talk about her paintings is done in novel .At the end her skill of artist came out with her paintings.
Que. : - 6] "... the wages of obedience is death, and the daughter that reproduces mothering to perfection, including child-bearing, already has on her cheeks the pallor of death. One reminded here of various texts by Lucy Irigaray, in which she attacks mothers for being, however unwillingly, accomplices in the patriarchal system of oppression." (Viola). In light of this remark, explain briefly Lily's dilemma in 'To The Lighthouse'.
Ans :- Lily Briscoe's dilemma in ' To the lighthouse' is because of she was against of Mrs, Ramsay.She is believing that as Mrs, Ramsay is not living a good and satisfied life ,she is living for others,for family,for to take care of people.Lily is not believing that Mrs, Ramsay can be a part of painting,she is thinking how she can be visual of her paintings,why she is the soul of the house.
Que :- 7 ] You have compared the 'beginning' and the 'ending' of the novel and the film adaptation of the novel directed by Colin Gregg (you can see it again in the embedded video below this). Do you think that the novel is more poignant than the movie? If yes, do you ascribe the fact that the power of words is much greater than that of the screen / visuals?
Ans : The beginning of the movie and Novel are different.we need to aware or to read original novel before watching movie.Story doesn't start same in both. But the ending was same in movie and novel .it ends with Lily Briscoe's painting.According to me Movie was more apply to understand plot, character, concept of the novel .we more understand with visualisation. In the movie the camera angle was very good .
Que : - 8 ]How do you interpret the last line of the novel (It was done; it was finished.
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.) with reference to the ending of the film (After the final stroke on the canvass with finishing touch, Lily walks inside the house. As she goes ante-chamber, the light and dark shade makes his face play hide-and-seek. She climbs stairs, puts her brush aside, walks through the dark and light to enter her room. Gently closes the door - speaks: "Closed doors, open windows" - lies on the bed and with some sort of satisfaction utters: "Dearest Briscoe, you are a fool".)
Ans :- After the final stroke on the canvas with finishing touch,lily walks inside the house,goes into ante - chamber, some light and dark shades are playing hide and seek with her face.She said to Mrs,Ramsay that you are fool ,look without family, without getting married I can live alone happily, I can paint.At the end he completes her paintings.She proves himself infront of Mrs,Ramsay.
Que :- 9 ] What does the catalogue named as 'Army and Navy' signify? What does cutting of 'Refrigerator' signify?
Ans :- maybe it was a symbol of change,of Changing technology.james ,son of Mr and Mrs. Ramsay who is also in army and he died. James is guided in his choice by Mrs. Ramsay and it should therefore be associated with her.Mrs, Ramsay is repeatedly shown as someone who is training and shaking her children's minds and her approach to her son's.she wants her daughter and the women around her to support and sustain men,while she wants the men to be a success in the public sphere.
Que :- 10 ] Why did Virginia give such prominence to the tale of the “Fisherman’s Wife”? In particular, why did she weave such a misogynist tale into the fabric of a book which so eloquently challenges received patriarchal notions about the roles and capabilities of women?
Ans :- Here in novel Mrs,Ramsay is reading story of " Fisherman's wife" and in novel Virginia Woolf portrayed the character of Mrs,Ramsay and her opposite character Lily Briscoe. Virginia wants to draw the picture of women characters at different way,with different perspective.
Que :- 11 ] How is India represented in 'To The Lighthouse'?
Ans :- so, through the character of Mrs,Ramsay India is represented as a ldiol and good housewife,caring wife.she is always pampers her husband's ego and attitude.She also always take care of children and guest also.she is a perfect image of an Indian daughter in law.
Que :- 12] Write summaries of this articles ?
• There are three article like ;
1. Mythical pattern in " To the lighthouse " by Joseph L. Blotner
• This article deal with Greek myth.
• Here Mrs, Ramsay is proved as a lighthouse at the lighthouse was constant and stable.
• Mrs,Ramsay is a 'giver' always and Mr,Ramsay was 'Taker ' always.
• According to Sigmund Freud,male was lighthouse,but according to Karl Yung,female was a lighthouse.
2. Fluidity V/S Masculinity by Andre Viola.
• This article shows the character of Lily.so ,lily was at the centre.Through the character of Mrs,Ramsay we can see the patriarch society. As lily don't like Mrs,Ramsay so both are arguing always against eachother.It is Kunstel Roman's novel,it shows lily Briscoe's journey.This also representing Woolf's life and Briscoe's painting.
3. Vision to the lighthouse :-
This article was a quite different from novel.Here Mrs, Ramsay is Matriarch. When she was alive there was not good relationship between father and son. After the death of Mrs,Ramsay they meet and Lily Briscoe also get her vision.
Thank you.......
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