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Shakespeare’s Sister - Virginia Woolf Q. (1) Critically appreciate Virginia wolf’s Shakespeare’s Sister: Ans: - ❖ Introduction: - Virginia Woolf is considered to be an outstanding f...

Shakespeare’s Sister - Virginia Woolf Q. (1) Critically appreciate Virginia wolf’s Shakespeare’s Sister: Ans: - ❖ Introduction: - Virginia Woolf is considered to be an outstanding female novelist who was best known for her novels “Dalloway” (1925), and “To the light House” (1927). Being a modern write she also wrote essays, biographics, latter and diaries. Her writings tell into the modernist movement that took place between world war I and world war II. She used “stream of consciousness technique” in her novels in which she focused on character development rather their plot Development. Virginia Woolf did not consider women superior to man but she focused on the equality of both and advised us to treat and appreciate both in an equal manner. ❖ Shakespeare’s Sister: An Extract from “A Room OF One’s Own: A Room of Once Own is an extended essay by a novelist and a critic Virginia Woolf. It is a landmark of twentieth Feminist through, it is a Feminist text based on a series of lectures delivered by Virginia Woolf at Newham Collage and Airton collage I 1928. These lectures were later revised and extended by Virginia Woolf in as heart of six chapter which mixes the fact a fictional to analyse the role and relationship of money and gender to be the production of art specially fiction by wor. A Room of One’s Own is written in fictional from. However, the book is narrated by a fictional character Judith Shakespeare’s and fictional narrator Mary Baton. It highlights and discusses the non-Fictional reality of women being suborelinate to men. The fictional character I. narrator the main topic of woman and fictional. ❖ The Title “A Room of One’s own”: - It’s Importance. The Title of this fictional work is apt suggestive and appropriative. The Title come from Virginia Woolf’s concept that “A Woman must have money and a Room pf her own if she is to write a fiction.  The essay is generally seen as a text and it demands both wider and figural space for woman. The title also refers to any author’s need for poetic licence and personal liberty to create art Woolf’s father sir Leslie slephen believed that only the boys of the family should get education and therefore she was left without formal education and schooling. ❖ Structure of the Essay: A Room of One’s Own: - The Essay “A Room of One’s Own” is divided into six chapters. In the first chapter, Woolf addresses the problem of women’s relative lack of education, this chapter points out how recent education of women and how little money has been spent on them. Woolf said, “The difficulties of getting education for women and the limitations brought by family life.” The second chapter of this essay takes place in British museum- One of the few libraries to which women had feel access. Here, Woolf tries to find out an answer to her question by consulting man write’s views on woman. Woolf lives at this point of history, which is conjurers “records not opinions but facts.” In her starting point, she chooses to Look into the lives. Of English women during the Elizabeth period which is an era of surpassing literary accomplishment but only among young men.” ❖ Shakespeare’s Sister: The Third chapter of a Room of one’s own: - The name of the third feminist essay is Shakespeare’s sister. It this chapter, Woolf invented a fictional character Judith Shakespeare’s sister to illustrate that a woman with Shakespeare’s gift would have been denied the same opportunities because of the doors that were closed to woman Judith, she is trapped at home. She could not be given tribe she was adventurous as imaginative as agog to see the world as he was but she was never sent to school.  Woolf further said that Judith is betrothed and when she does not want to marry, she is beaten and then shamed in to marriage… While Shakespeare’s himself as a dramalist an confined to the expectation women. Judith kills herself and her genius goes unexpected, Woolf asks renowned question “What would have happened if Shakespeare had wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith?” Although she is the apple of her father’s eyes, her family expect her to conform to a sockrole that leaves no room for the development of her talent. ❖ Woolf’s View on unequal treatment of woman: - By giving example of fictional character of Judith, Shakespeare’s Sitters, Woolf emphasises the fact that women are treated unequally in our society. And that is why they have produced les impressive works of writings than man. The narrator uses Judith- the imaginative twin sister of Shakespeare’s to show how society systematically discriminates against women. Judith is as talented as her brother Shakespeare but family encouraged the talent of Shakespeare Judith was not sent to school so, She Could not achieve such success as Shakespeare achieved. Judith writes some is secret but hides as burns her work for fear of reprisal. She becomes engaged at early young age when she begs to be allow not to be marry, she is beaten by her father. She wants to go acting but meals with rejection and ridicule. She is finally taken up by theatre manager. She becomes pregnant by him and commits suicide. ❖ Woolf’s view on gender Discrimination: - In the Chapter III. “Shakespeare’s Sister”. Woolf midges her thoughts with her daily life. She highlights the strong need for women to take their rights and to be equal with man. The study also explores the fictional narrator’s experience in “A Room of her own” with the patriarchal society of England in  which makes have all power and money. By giving her own problem, Woolf give us many examples of how there Was gender discrimination at that time in England. Woolf said that her imaginary is not allowed to inter the library, because she is woman. ❖ Woman’s place in male – Womanating society: - Judith- Shakespeare’s sister is a feminist chapter of a critical essay “A Room of One’s own” in which the narrator talks about the difficulties faced by women because of social connection in a male dominative society. The patriarchal society always locks woman up in the house and is lates her from the public area. Decision or not in the hands of woman. Women are not given freedom for her personal development. Women is treated brutally by society. Equal rights are not given to women. So, woman Is no able to write attractive literature. Because, in the house, woman has a huge amount of etchings to do such food, Cleaning the narrative of the children. And while doing these things, these impossible for woman to became creative. ❖ Conclusion: - In Virginia Woolf’s essay Shakespeare’s Sister (1928), The narrator explores the misogynistic world’s effect on woman arrests from the renaissance to the nineteenth century. And her own experience.