Shakespeare Sister

What are the psychological and physical conditions to compose a fiction work? Why Shakespeare plays are not pen by women? These fascinating and frivolous questions are posed in “Shakespeare Sister” an excerpt from Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Woolf develops a real pragmatics of feminist on daily base. An efficient that women face for centuries, such as women’s rights in education.

Virginal Woolf explains why between 16th and 19th century, British and most of the country rarely contain female literatures. She hypnotically responses on her essay “Shakespeare’s sister” because they have no time, no money and no sitting rooms to themselves. In fact, “women had children before they were twenty-one.” (Paragraph 1) While some of these observations are pessimistic,

She ironically affirms that if Shakespeare was able to produce an incurables play is only because he is lucky enough to be born a man. In fact, if the author of Macbeth has a sister as talented and educated as him, Virginia Woolf imagines a scenario necessarily catastrophic. This cursed sister can’t probably survive as a woman in a world dominated by men. She can’t write, she is force to marry, she would have fled and so on. She would eventually have been pitied by an actor-director, would have become pregnant, would have killed herself and would have sunk into oblivion: “who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?” (Paragraph 4) Virginia with her good senses is strongly convinces that a girl of genius, who will try to make use of her poetic gift on the Elizabethan age, will have been negatively view by others. She will be torture and torn in every direction by her own instincts, that she will have lost health and intellect. Unfortunate, the only solution is to write under pseudonyms like many famous authors; Emily Bronte Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Ann Evans,June Tarpé Mills … (Armitage, H. (2015, April