Similarities Between Frederick Douglass And Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf and Frederick Douglass are two significant writers who suffered from inequalities. Specifically, “A Room of One’s Own”, Virginia Woolf focuses on exposing the unequal treatment of women to the eye of the public, and in “A Narrative of the Life of Frederick” Frederick Douglass wrote an autobiography, with the hope of achieving more rights for African-Americans. While aiming to help two unalike groups of individuals these two writers share many characteristics as well as differences. Therefore, these two influential writers used their talent in literacy to spread information to their readers in order to create a change in the way people are perceived.

(Differences in their writing)
Frederick Douglass and Virginia Woolf both came …show more content…

Nevertheless, he was still a slave and treated poorly, and faced the same trauma the other slaves would have faced.

(Similarities (Example of inequalities))

Woolf has to give a lecture at the women’s college. She demonstrates inequality and different education because the women college has no money compared to the men’s college. Without the money to provide for their school, how could women get the same education as men?
call me Mary jane, Mary Carmile she says. Her identity doesn’t matter because this is any women’s story at the time. All women were feeling these restrictions at the time.
-340 tells the story of how she was walking on the path of the college campus and she was told she wasn’t allowed to and she thought that was ridiculous because what is the worse that could have happened. Also, to get into the library she had to either get a letter from a man or be accompanied by one (what do they think would happen in a library?)
-difference in the two meals. In the men’s campus, she was being entertained and given really good food because they knew her as a famous author but at the women’s college it was all leftover and here she was actually

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