To the Lighthouse

- This  post is in response of the this worksheet , http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2014/09/worksheet-virginia-woolfs-to-lighthouse.html
To the Lighthouse’, written by Virginia Woolf and published in 1927, centers on the period before and after World War one. The background is of great importance to an understanding of the gender relations in the novel. As Woolf is writing out of a society with well-established values, that wanted the vote for all women and equal rights. In many ways Woolf is through as she criticizes many aspects of the patriarchal world that she was a part, though some critics say that she seems to support the patriarch.

- Mrs. Ramsay is the stereotypical mother figure, beautiful, beloved, helpful, and the novel does not criticize her achievements as a mother of eight. That she thinks this is clear in the image of her sitting and knitting, thinking all the though, and noticing the beam of the lighthouse through the window. This image of the lighthouse as exactly a light in the dark is very powerful in the way it reveals. Mrs. Ramsay is the protector of the men in her family. In fact, she uses the men’s relationship with each other to give her peace of mind, a chance to rest from her regular works as mother of the family. 

- Mrs. Ramsay is powerful from the novel’s opening pages not only as a woman of great humanity, but also as a guard. If beside we are showing character of Lily . In her life she is doing lots of struggle and this think  represent in her painting also . In this novel we find two major character Lily and Mrs. Ramsay.Beside we can said that  one or another way writer  represent ownself here.

- In the novel two types of myths .Oedipus myth and Pagan Myth.

The Odipus Myth presents  in the characters like, James and Mrs.Ramsay. her main goal is to care for her youngest son James .Mrs. Ramsay tells her son that’ if the weather is good tomorrow, they can go to the light house. So, here we can see how she is care for her child with love .And other side Mr. Ramsay tells him, today that’s not possible ..So, as mother Mrs.Ramsay is know how to do care of children.    We can say that, Mrs. Ramsay is about as close as Virginia Woolf.  Mrs. Ramsay is the lovely star at the center of the Ramsay family, and at the heart of the novel. Mrs.Ramsay magical power as the great mother is quite clear in the first section. .Mrs.Ramsay is more emotional, whose magical force attracts people. The second . We find pagan myth in Mrs. Ramsay’s character. In pagan myth Rhea, Demeter and Persephone this are reflected in Mrs. Ramsay’s character.

 - So at last we can said that ,Mrs.Ramsay was performing role very successfully being the central character of mother, wife, and friend holds power in the novel. She was always trying to living her life full of happiness. But after Mrs.Ramsay’s death, Lily completes her painting. Thought the painting of Mrs.Ramsay and James is so conceptual, Lily achieves the convey of magical power by finishing the portrait of Mrs.Ramsay.