Abstract
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s most influential literary criticism works, is developed from two lectures she made to Newham and Girton colleges and an essay on women and fiction. This masterpiece aims to encourage women to seek for freedom and equality in fierce social situation. This thesis gives an analysis of Virginia Woolf’s feminism idea origin, material and spiritual independence and theory of androgynous vision in order to sufficiently manifest the feminism ideas reflected in A Room of One’s Own.
Key words: Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, feminism, androgyny, independence
Contents
1. Introduction-1
2. Demonstration 2
2.1 The rise of feminism-2
2.1.1 Feminist theory 2
2.1.2 Sources of Wool’s Feminism-2
2.1.2.1 The society- 3
2.1.2.2 Her family- -3
2.1.2.3 The Bloomsbury Group 4
2.2 Wool’s feminism reflected in A Room of One’s Own- 4
2.2.1 Woolf’s material independence4
2.2.1.1 Women 's own room4
2.2.1.2 Women’s economic base-5
2.2.2 Woolf’s spiritual independence6
2.2.2.1 Emancipation from masculinism6
2.2.2.2 Self-worth development7
2.2.2.3 Experience accumulation-8
2.2.3 Woolf’s androgyny9
2.2.3.1 Formation of Virginia Woolf 's androgyny-9
2.2.3.2 Effects of Virginia Woolf 's androgyny-10
3. Conclusion-11
Notes-13
Works Cited-14
Bibliography15