CONCLUSION
The uses of symbols serve the purpose of introspection, self-awareness, and penness to the unconscious in the novel. Composed on the flow of sensations, thoughts, memories, associations, and reflections in the ambit of symbol the action moves on normal constructional lines from scene to scene and from the mind to mind. There is less complication. These shifts from one consciousness to another and these movements are made further easy by allowing every incident to take place in close-knit homogeneous world. To The Lighthouse is a masterpiece of construction through symbolism. It is an organic whole. The conclusion argues that, despite such criticisms, Woolf's biographical vision was shaped by her predecessors and in particular her father, Leslie Stephen, although she also departed from them by ascribing militant and feminist roles to 'obscure' lives Virginia Woolf's essays on biography have helped countless readers to dismiss Victorian biography as an inartistic genre overly concerned with ‘Great Men’. The conclusion argues that, despite such criticisms, Woolf's biographical vision was shaped by her predecessors and in particular her father, Leslie This extract from Woolf's 1940 correspondence with Ben Nicolson on the subject of Bloomsbury's social commitments and their legacy initially sounds very like a restatement of her theory of women's outsidership in Three Guineas. This is clear in the rationale of her statement: ‘I've received so little from society that I owe it very little’. Yet further probing of this tricky, heavily licensed passage suggests this reading does not ring true. This passage unravels the logic of its tentative central thesis and, rather than being an endorsement of operating outside the mainstream and a rejection of social participation, it is in fact a key statement of Woolf's ambivalence, full of equivocation and loaded with self-critique. This is most clear in Woolf's ambiguous admission: ‘thats not altogether satisfactory’. It is unclear whether Woolf is suggesting that the rationale of receiving from and in turn owing society is itself faulty or if she is revealing a more specific uneasiness, as a privileged woman who admitted to being ‘hampered by the psychological hindrance of owning capital’ (D1 101), about her self-deceiving fantasy of having ‘received so little’ from society. This passage with its defensive and arch tone may seem a bathetic place to close this book on Woolf's activism, however it demonstrates acutely the ways in which questions of participation and social responsibility preyed on Woolf's mind and so seems appropriate.He Waves, where in an intense reflexive exploration of her own process, she revisited works which had inspired her: for example, while writing the second typescript she re-read and quoted from Dante who had stimulated her earliest sketches for the novel.
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