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Titill: 
  • Titill er á ensku The Figure in the Window: A study of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
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    Virginia Woolf wrote To the Lighthouse in 1926 when she was 44 years old, and it was published a year later. Her mother Julia Stephens died in 1895, when Virginia was only 13 years old. The memory of her haunted Virginia from the day she died until she finished writing To the Lighthouse.
    The story is on the surface about two days, ten years apart, of the Ramsay family in their summer home and their interactions with a few choice guests. It is also about plans for a trip to the nearby lighthouse, about a painting that is to be painted, and how losing loved ones affects a person. The characters most important to this essay are Mrs Ramsay, wife and mother, and Lily Briscoe, a spinster and painter invited to the family holiday by Mrs Ramsay. In depth, the story is about these two women, the idealized versions of Mother and Daughter and how their relationship affects the daughter and her choices in life. It also has implications for her art and her identity as a woman and how the death of that mother affects her.
    This essay focuses on the Mother–Daughter relationship as it is represented in the book. Mrs Ramsay and Lily are examined as well as Mrs Stephens and Virginia Woolf, and to what extent the two women in the book represent the real mother and daughter and their lives. It looks at the affects the loss of a mother has on a daughter and the effect the mother-daughter relationship has on the artist.
    Virginia Woolf did not think of To the Lighthouse as a novel but rather an elegy for her parents and especially her mother. It is her most critically acclaimed work of art and her most personal. This essay is an attempt to analyse how much of Mrs Stephens is in Mrs Ramsay and how relevant this comparison of these women, their families and histories, is to the construction and meaning of To the Lighthouse.

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  • 9.9.2014
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  • http://hdl.handle.net/1946/19606


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