This Presentation is a part of my academic presentation of Modenist Literature, M.A English Department of English M.K.B.U and it is submitted to Prof.dr.Dilip Barad.

1. ● Name :-Vala Jyotsna T
● Semester :- 3
● Class :- M.A part 2
● Paper Name :- Modenist Literature
● Topic :- Character Sketch of Mrs.Ramsay and Lily Briscoe in
“To The Lighthouse”.
● RollNo :- 33
● Email Id :- valajyotsna7@gmail.com
● Submitted to :- SMT S.B.Gardi Department of english MKBU.

2. About Virginia Woolf
● Virginia Woolf was
born on 25th
January,
1882.
● She is a novelist,
essayist, publisher
and critic.
● Died in 28
March,1941.

3. Her Famous Works
➔ To The Lighthous (1927).
➔ Mr.Dalloway (1925).
➔ Jacob' Room (1922).
➔ The Waves.
➔ A room of one's own.

5. Introduction “To The Lighthouse”
✔ The novel “To The Lighthouse” is written by Virginia Woolf.
✔ Published in 1927.
✔ The novel contains the narrative technique of Stream of
Consciousness and observation by character.
✔ “To The Lighthouse” centers on the family of Mr. And Mrs
Ramsay.
✔ The novel is landmark of high modernism.
✔ This novel divided in to three parts.
● The Window
● Time passes
● The Lighthouse.

6. Female Character in “To The
Lighthouse”
 Mrs.Ramsay.
 Lily Briscoe.
 Prue Ramsay.
 Rose Ramsay.
 Nancy Ramsay.
 Cam Ramsay.
✗ In this novel there are two major woman character, first is
Mrs.Ramsay and another is Lily Briscoe.
✗ Both contain different way of thinking and accepting the world.

7. Chracter Sketch of Mrs. Ramsay.
✔ Mrs.Samsay is the central
character in the novel and also
at the center of her family.
✔ Mrs.Ramsay, a woman
belonging to the Victorian age.
✔ Mrs.Ramsay is a wife of
Mr.Ramsay and mother of eight
childrens.
✔ She is a house wife ans she
manages the whole house and
family.

8. Conti...
✔ She is a beautiful and loving woman.She is a wonderful hostess
who take pride in making memorable experience for the guests at
the family's summer home on the Isle of skye.
✔ Mrs.Ramsay's talent of bringing people together an art.
✔ She is a critical thinker of a different sort than is usually
expected.
✔ Mrs. Ramsay is a great amount of dignity, according to Woolf.
✔ Mrs. Ramsay portrayal in image of fertility and softness.

9. Conti..
✗ Mrs.Ramsay is the character who is
constantly present not only worldly
present but also in the mind of the
character.
✗ She is an ideal woman as per all
male in the novel.
✗ Mrs.Ramsay fits in that frame very
perfectly, a good wife, mother,
caretaker, cook, knitter and a perfect
woman who manage the house.

10. Conti...
✔ Mrs. Ramsay is performing her duty well, not because she want to
be a good woman but she is doing that because in that way.
✔ Her every effort is connected with other's happyness and her own
image of “Angel”.
✔ She is thinking about her family and her house only, she is very
conscious about other's comments upon her nature.
✔ She is a dutiful and loving wife but often struggel with her
husband's difficult and selfishness.
✔ She questions her self and her motives and looks opened eye at her
fauits.
✔ In the last part of the novel Mrs.Ramsay is died.

11. Character Sketch of Lily Briscoe.
✗ Lily Briscoe is a free manded
and independent woman of
21th century.
✗ She is a individual creative
artist as well as sensible lady.
✗ She is a also central character
of the novel.
✗ A young, single painter who
befriend the Ramsay on the
Isle of skye.
✗ She is unattached to family,
merely a friend of the family.

12. Conti...
✔ In the novel Lily is portray as a “New Woman”.
✔ Lily Briscoe is totally oppose from Mrs.Ramsay but
in same way she wants to be like Mrs. Ramsay.
✔ Lily Briscoe is not a traditional protagonist for a
novel.
✔ She is quiet, reserved, unassuming.
✔ She is not famous or highly regarded by a
community.

13. Conti...
✗ Lily Briscoe decided that she will not
marry and that she will paint.
✗ That movement does not exempt her
farm the role assigned to woman in
her society.
✗ Character of lily Briscoe gives us
glimpse of contemporary woman,
and her ignorance and straight
forward of Charles Tansley is very
significantly present her character.

14. Conti...
➔ “Charles Tansley used to say that, she remembered,
Woman can't paint, can't write. Coming up behind
her, he had stood close beside her, a thing she hated,
as she painted her on this very spot” (Woolf).
➔ She is never depended upon any one. Her every act
and wish is related with her happiness.
➔ At the end of the novel Briscoe has found her vision.

16. Binaries between these two character.
✗ Mrs.Ramsay.
✗ Angel in the house.
✗ Conscious about her image.
✗ Thinking about her family
and society.
✗ Her art for family sake.
✗ Artistic qualities like
decorating the fruit basket,
taking care of garden and
knitting.
✗ At the end she was died.
✔ Lily Briscoe.
✔ Angel in the world.
✔ Couscious about her identity.
✔ Thinking about her own self.
✔ Her art is for life sake.
✔ Artistic qualities like her ability of
painting but that ability influence her
every time.
✔ At the end she has found her vision.

17. Conclusion...
 In the novel express about human's
different behaviour and how to struggel
woman in life.
 Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe both are
appropriate in the novel.

18. Thank you......