Themes of Lighthouse

Name :- Rayjada Mitalba Jaydipsinh.     Roll No :- 20          paper No:-9 (M.A) 

Pg. Reg No:- 2069108420190040.    

Topic:- Themes of Lighthouse.  

Submitted to Smt.S.B.Gradi Department of English, Maharaja Krushnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

• 'ToThe Lighthouse':-

• Virginia Woolf:- 

   Woolf full name is a Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer. She born in January 1882 and died in 28March 1941. She was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Notable works:-

1. "Mrs. Dalloway"
2. "To The Lighthouse"
3. "A Room of One's Own"

To The Lighthouse in Three part:-

1. The Window. 2. Time Passed. 3. The Lighthouse.

To The Lighthouse characters:-

1. Mrs. Ramsay:-  Mr.Ramsay's wife. A beautiful and loving woman.
2. Mr.Ramsay:- Mrs. Ramsay's husband, and a prominent metaphysical philosopher.
3. Lily Briscoel:- A young woman, single Painter who befriends the Ramsay on the Skye.
4. James Ramsay:- The Ramsay's youngest son. James loves his mother deeply and feels a murderous antipathy toward his father. With whom he must compete for Mrs. Ramsay's love and affection.

Themes:-

Time:- To the Lighthouse in explores time at part 1 the window, and part 2 the Lighthouse occur almost in 'real time's as the action described takes place within a period more or less equivalent to the period of time it takes to read the section. In part 2 time passing the 'real time's of the window accelerates to breKneck speed and the section spans a whole decade in just a few pages. Without much attention to detail.

Love and Loss:- In Lighthouse each character contemplates love and copes with loos in individual ways. Often characters miss opportunities to connect with one another, making reflection their only expression of love or loss. Somtimes unconscious or seemingly unrelated action reveal love and loss. In 'the window' chapter 9, while Mr. Banked complains about Mr. Ramsay to Lily Briscoe, he quietly admires Mrs.Ramsay, making Lily aware of his unrequited love. In 'Time passes' chapter 6 quiet Augustus Carmichael grieved by Ramsay's death in time pass so lost Ramsay.

Lighthouse:- The Lighthouse offers a life force to Mrs. Ramsay and her family, propelling both the plot the novel opens with the conflict surrounding James's desire to go to it and the streams of consciousness that ensue. It has a clear and significant presence in this world. The Lighthouse is Mrs.Ramsay's source of stability and permanence, and it is the force that defines and joins the members of the Ramsay family.

Art as a Means of preservation:- 

Mr.Ramsay fails to obtain the philosophical understanding he so desperately desires, and Mrs. Ramsay's life, though filled with moments that have the shine and resilience of rubies, ends only Lily Briscoe finds a way to preserve her experienc, and that way is through her art. As Lily begins her portrait of Mrs.Ramsay at the beginning of the novel. Lily finishes the painting she started which stands as a moment of clarity wrested from confusion. Art is perhaps the only hope of surety in a world . While Mrs. Ramsay's death and painting on the lawn, Lily reflects the nothing stays, all changes but not words not paint.

Marriage: -

Mrs Ramsay really wants everyone to get married particularly women. Her marriage to Mr. Ramsay is actuLly the only real marriage we see in the novel. We do, however, hear about via Lily memory how the Rayley marriage which Mrs. Ramsay had encouraged so much, worked out it was unsuccessful.

Gender:-  in Lighthouse the theme of gender remains in focus as each character considers gender roles and relations from his or her own standpoint. Mrs. Ramsay delights in her womanhood, successfully fulfilling the traditional roles of caregiver, homemaker, beauty, comforter of men. Lily, on the other hand, resents those same tradisional roles, feeling her defiant pride undercut by anxiety and self doubt. Having successfully refused to give Mr.Ramsay the female sympathy he craves in the Lighthouse. Aside from considering men and women's individual gender roles, the novel also considers the gender relations within a marriage.

And  Mrs.Ramsay represent the conventional ideal indeed, Lily thinks they have suddenly transcended themselves and become a symbol as they stand on the lawn. The novel presents marriage and gender alike as complex, continued negotiations between the sexes, each facing a set of expectations that seldom fit but are nevertheless worked around, worked through, and reinvented.

Identity:- 

Mrs. Ramsay in particular is very conscious of her identity constantly interrogating herself and her character. She adopts a very subordinate position when in her interactions with other people, which means that her own true self is frequently stifled .