A Room Of One's Own By Virquinia Woolf Analysis

Patriarchy in Society A Room of One’s Own by Virquinia Woolf is a collection of her many essays explaining the disadvantages of a life as a woman in the 18th and 19th centuries. . In the past men had all power, if it was holding political office or being the head of the house, men has always had the power in society. Women have not had the power, anything they made was their husbands, and nothing was their own. One of the main areas that had disadvantages was the education system. Woolf writes about two hypothetical experiences, one of which was set at Oxbridge in all-boys school, and the other at Fernham which is an all-girls school. In both experiences she describes what her journey at the campus would be like, and the different treatments

Oxbridge’s luncheons are filled with various delicious foods. “After that came the partridges, but if this suggests a couple of bald, brown birds on a plate you are mistaken. The partridges, many and various, came with all their retinue of sauces and salads, the sharp and the sweet, each in its order; their potatoes, thin as coins but not so hard; their sprouts, foliated as rosebuds but more succulent. And no sooner had the roast and its retinue been done with then the silent serving-man, the Beadle himself perhaps in a milder manifestation, set before us, wreathed in napkin, confection which rose all fugal from the waves” (Woolf 13). Everything served at Oxbridge is filled with flavor to nourish the mind for school even the plates have beautiful designs on them to help with imagination other than plan boring plates like Fernham. “Here was the soup. It was plain gravy soup. There was nothing to stir the fancy in that. One could have seen through the transparent liquid any pattern that there might have been on the plate-itself. But there was not patterned. The plate was plain” (Woolf 19). Everything about Fernham was plain, from the soup with no flavor to the plates with no color, it is similar to eating food in a prison. At Fernham they are deprived of physical amenities, and the pleasures from the culinary that would have provided them with knowledge to add creativity and nourishment in the brain and writing. Imagination would be low at Fernham, they have nothing to compare to except boring and