I believe Virginia Woolf was as one of the most complex text we’ve read so far, mostly because of her style mixing fiction and lecture. However, it so cleverly written. Even not reading her biography and background, we can notice how intelligent and what an incredible intellect she had with all her quotes about different authors.

In this text, Virginia Woolf developed the idea of women being able to become a fiction writer, and to do so, women needs money, a room of her own and education. Women must have financial independence to make choices for themselves. They must have a room with privacy and silence to develop their ideas, and most of all, they need freedom of time. We all understand that, by the time this text was written, women did not have the same freedom men had. This will lead us to another of her arguments of how men and women differs in society.

Woof developed arguments about how society views women and how it views men. Also, how education is different for both genders. I think a good example from the book is when she mentioned how wealth Men’s College is in comparison to Women’s College that essentially has no money.  Also, on Chapter 1, she exemplified the dinner she had on both Colleges. From the Men’s College the dinner was sophisticated. On the other hand, Women’s College Dinner were the same as saying they were serving leftover meals. It is unquestionable  that education offered for men and women were unequal and absolutely unfair. Women would not  be able to have the same intellect and opportunity to compete with men.

Additionally, Woolf not only pointed out this difference, but she argued about the absurd of how different men and women were treated. A good example is when she was waking on the path of the College campus and the Beadle approached her. What difference would make in society of her walking in the campus where only “Fellows and Scholars” (341) were allowed? That is one of the absurd that she could not agree with.

Another interesting point, so brilliantly and strongly developed in Chapter 3, it’s the story she made up about Shakespeare’ sister. She questioned if Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he was, would she be able to show her work as he did? Of course the answer was no. She stated, “…any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended up her days in a lonely cottage…” (366) which means that any women with such talent would go silent, because to seek this work would be impossible and even tragic for a female. Therefore, Woof is arguing that a lot of art had been lost, because society did not allow women to have that form of expression. Society has suffered immeasurable loss because of all the female voices that got silent.