My presentation is about art of characterisation in to the light house by Virginia Woolf

1. Name : Gond Asmita K.
Roll No. : 1st
Paper : The modernist literature
Topic : Art of characterization
in ‘ To the lighthouse’ by
Virginia Woolf.
Pg enrollment no: pg14101017
Year : 2015
Class : M.A, SEM--3
Email-Id : asmita.gond414@gmail.com
asmita.gond414@gmail.com
Submitted to : Department of English M.K.B.U.
Bhavnagar University

2.  Virginia Woolf was born in London
, January 26, 1882.
 His father Leslie Stephen was the
author of critical , biographical
essay.
 Virginia Woolf stresses freedom in
her family life.
 Was educated at home.
 Married Leonard Woolf
 She was weak, sick and suffered
from depression
 She also member of Bloomsbury
group.
 Died on 28 March 1941 (aged 59);
River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex,
England

3. • Her writings find the meaning of her own existence
• Her works examine the structure of human life
• Addresses relation ship to the experience of time.
• Inspired by French thinker Henri Bergson, Marcel Proust
and Henri Bergson

4. • According to Arnold Bonnet he summarized ‘To the light
house’ as……….
• “ A group of people plan to sail to the light house
in a small boat that is the externality of the plot.”
• According to Diary of Virginia Woolf
“I have an idea that I will invent a new name for my
books to supplant ‘novel’ But what? “
• ……. By Virginia Woolf

5. Social Cultural
Political
Intellect
ual
All writers are
influences with
such environment

6. Doubt and
uncertainty
Aestheticism
Feminism Pessimism

7. Urbanization
It brought chaos in
society and cities
Rapid industrialization
• Rural area people rushes
towards cities

8. The
window
Time
pass
The
light
house

9. Influenced by
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud

11. • Mrs. Ramsay is a beautiful
and loving woman with
wonderful abilities of
handling things.
• Lily Briscoe rejects the
conventional image of the
woman represented by
Mrs. Ramsay.
“Women can’t paint, woman
can’t write”
------------- By Charles Tansley

12. “She offers us a lyrical abstraction from the pain with
which she felt the world the quality of her mind and spirit
has a distinction that will make some readers always
grateful of accept the offering.”
 Most of the characters are of upper – middle class which
Woolf belongedto.
Woolf has created a limited range of intellectual and
moral types.

13. Mrs. Ramsay is round
character .
She reflects differently towards
others thoughts, For example.
 Children
 Husband
 Lily Briscoe
 Servant Augustus Carmichael
 James's and Cam’s thoughts
about their father.
• “There are
conventional
shifting from mind
to mind, so that
we as often
perceive the
impression given
by one to another
as the experience
each receives”

14. Conventional Technique

15. Woolf’s Use of different colourse
Yellow
Red
Brown
Blue
Green
White

16. n
So we can say that the novel is highly adventurous in
term of human consciousness.
According to Woolf a successful novelist is that he should
give us life , spirit , truth or reality.
The novel is a new ‘spirit of awareness.’
The novelist tried to convey her reader a very sensation
of living, , the experience of life as it is lived.

17. • http://hetalbagohil122013.blogspot.in/2013/10/art-of-
characterization-in-to.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/To_the_Lighthouse
Reference