Virginia Woolf's Metamorphoses And Virginia Woolf Essay

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In a time of war when people were dying, one women was worried about keeping the thing she loved the most alive, literature. During the World War I literature was starting to die off, and something had to be done, literature needed to evolve and change with the time. The tragedy caused grief, but Virginia Woolf wanted to break the old customs of people, and make them more open minded. As a woman doing a job that didn’t involve being a housewife or cleaning was not easy, so for Virginia to pursue a career in literature it took bravery. She opened an immense door for future writers who did not follow the old mentality of their predecessors, who wanted to change literature so that it could fit for the time they were living in. Literature was morphing …show more content…

This paper will have two main points that will compare Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. The first point I will briefly discuss Tiresias but through a different perspective, and instead of sexual, in a more social aspect of life, just as the main character in Virginia Woolf’s story they both had a sex change that altered their perspectives toward life. The second point that I will use will revolve around the central idea that Woolf was trying to get across the story which was that the time was changing and literature need to change to stay alive. She wanted to alter the old way people looked at writing and at the position of women in society, and other more modern ideas that were being rejected by …show more content…

Virginia Woolf demonstrated extreme creativity by the plot in her story where she shows a man that becomes a woman and learns about the hard things that a woman must go through in the time he was alive. At first when he was a man he did not understand completely, but after he became a woman he understood the thoughts and actions of women. When this book was published, women did not yet have all the rights and equality to men that they deserved, because people still were attached to their old customs to where the men should have more rights than the women, but as time was changing with the war and other things there needed to be a change in literature that could impact the world socially, and it is through Woolf’s book that the change of literature is seen to fit the time and conditions she was living in. Likewise, Ovid changed the world in his time giving a new point of view of the creation of the world and poetry as well as adding controversial themes in the story, like Virginia Woolf. Ovid brought up in a powerful poetic way the themes of the creation, life and death, sex/gender, and higher being all together in one poem done in an elegant

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