ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How does Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” contribute to feminist theory?
A
It suggests that the suppression of women is part of a historical climate that will naturally fade away.
B
It suggests that gender roles are conditioned by the possession of money and power.
C
It suggests that gender has power over class.
D
All of the above answers are correct.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In A Room of One’s Own, Woolf develops the theory of the relation between gender and writing. She examines the exclusion of women from educational institutions and the relations between this exclusion and the unequal distribution of wealth.

Detailed explanation-2: -Briefly, Virginia Woolf wants women to be free in every field. She states that the rights given to men about working with equal rights as men, fair wages or equal pay, having equal right in education and sex equality should be given to women, as well.

Detailed explanation-3: -Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular, in this famous essay, which asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. According to Woolf, centuries of prejudice and financial and educational disadvantages have inhibited women’s creativity.

Detailed explanation-4: -The title alone has had enormous impact as cultural shorthand for a modern feminist agenda. Woolf ‘s room metaphor not only signifies the declaration of political and cultural space for women, private and public, but the intrusion of women into spaces previously considered the spheres of men.

Detailed explanation-5: -Here’s why, in addition to Roxane Gay, Bey and Lena Dunham, Virginia Woolf should be one of your feminist role models: She was chiefly interested in the inner lives of women. Unlike many of her literary predecessors, Woolf aimed to give credence to the unspoken emotions and interpretations we experience daily.

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