Among all her masterpieces, To the Lighthouse is Virginia’s Woolf best novel published in 1927 centered in the Ramsay family, and friends, at the end of 19th century, who spend their vacation in a cottage at the countryside in Scotland called ‘The Isle of Skye’ with a lighthouse. It reveals not only the imposition of social roles but also the inner fight about one’s judgmental state of mind when it comes to family and the political correctness behavior among society.
It’s a mind blowing story on how far can a woman go when it comes to career and how mercy can children be with those who had mistreated them while desiring something not so far from reality, but still impossible to reach through parents. Without leaving love and romance aside, Virginia brings the inconsistencies of mind hunted by the fear. It’s widely believed a mother can be as happy as an artist, however, can both be free from themselves? At a turning point, Mrs. Ramsey dies making the reader reflect on how important living life according to the others expectations brings us joy indeed.
Woolf wrote this novel based on her mother, a Victorian midwife married to an older husband, who happened to be an unsuccessful university professor with five children. She tried to implicate the price one pays when it concerns to dreams coming true, as she could tell by herself: a childless writer married to her editor. There would always be a choice, therefore, consequences. Due to the period she used to write, her stories were always full of inner perceptions contemplated in silence casting back the actions in order to not suffer retaliation, a high price to be paid to keep decent image in your social group.
A real state of art you should read in no time!
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