In chapter six of “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf, states that “Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine, I thought. But it would be well to test what one meant by man-womanly, and conversely by woman-manly”(98.)Woolf tried to illustrate that if writers want to create a good writing, he or she need to be looking at other different point of view which is either man or woman side. Similarly as previous chapters, instead of blame on man blindly,Woolf give out a fair point that both man and woman should think man-womanly or woman-manly in order to make permanent literature.

Why do writers should put their sex aside and then write? Woolf mentions that “is that it is fatal for any one who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple” (104) and “ And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to dealth”(104). Woolf wants to show that man and woman should be equal treated. She think that those writing works with bias are not permanent. Works with purely man view may cater to society of that centuries. However, “ Brilliant and effective powerful and masterly, as it may appear for a day or two, it must wither at nightfall; it cannot grow in the minds of others”(104). This means that writer should forget about gender and set he or she in a equal balance of thinking in order to have chance to produce masterpieces. As Woolf also mentions that “ There must be freedom and there must be peace”(104) which says that without emotion and bias on sex when work on writing, those will be amazing and shock.

In chapter six, Virginia Woolf states the importance of having money and a own room again. “that it is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry”(105). What factor can affect woman’s writing? In Woolf’ s point of view, it is doubtless and no question about the importance of material and space. Woolf says that “ it is far more important at the moment to know how much money women had and how many rooms than to theories about their capacity”(105). If women lack of wealth, then she has to make money for living. It’s very difficult and tough for woman to make money during that centuries. When making living, woman have to give up their times for writing. Also, because of poverty, woman have to endure invisible pressure such as integrate others. As the time passes, the desire of writing from woman may just disappeared.

“I should implore you to remember your responsibilities, to be higher, more spiritual; I should remind you how much depends upon you ,and what an influence you can exert upon the future”(110). In my opinion, the despise of man on woman is according to their education itself which is not right and equal on sex. That is the reason why I think Woolf didn’t blame on man from the entire text. Woolf wants to wake woman up. She want woman be ware of their one responsibilities. Only when woman realize to put passion on writing, bear all difficulties and not blame on chance, time or money, then they will succeed. Shakespeare’s sister will reborn, because literature never fall in to death. Do you think it is also woman responsibilities to higher and change their future?

The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass is quite an informative piece. It does a fantastic job of showing the reader of the true cruelty of slavery. Many themes are presented in this piece but perhaps the main theme would be education. Perhaps the main question would be wether Frederick Douglass views education as a blessing or a curse. He presses upon this issue quite frequently in the narrative. He presents education in both a positive and negative light. Ultimately I believe that he views education as a wonderful that can get you places in life, but it can be viewed as a curse because of all the things one must do in order to obtain an education. It was easier for a woman to obtain an education to read write and recite the ABC’s but for a black man it was almost impossible to find someone to teach you these things because blacks were not considered “real people” back then.

Although one could say that he viewed it as a curse because with his newfound knowledge he learned things that he wished he did not. The slaves were viewed as property. If their property became too smart the slave owners may seek revenge/punish them. Being educated was a freedom that the slaves were not allowed to enjoy. However, he is now smarter and has a quality that other slaves do not. He can feel more like a person now with his newfound knowledge.

I think another important question to touch upon is why might Frederick Douglass use female characters to demonstrate the brutality and inhumane treatment of slaves in the south. I think that he used the female characters because women were not supposed to be abused and were supposed to be taken care of by men no matter what. He showed the drastic difference between how white women and black women were treated. I believe that he is trying to evoke a sense of anger or even a sense of disgust/horror in the reader because even today hitting a woman is viewed as wrong.

Douglass uses women to accentuate the brutality and injustices of slavery because the experience of a female slave compared to that of a male slave was, in many cases and on many levels, different. The double-consciousness that a slave dealt with, being aware of themselves both as humans and property, is invariable. However, female slaves were subjected to sexual abuse, rape, the dispersal of her children and family, along with other harsh experiences.

Overall, I’m very impressed with Douglass’ narrative and how honest and eye opening it was. The tone in which he writes is absolutely astonishing. He’s very matter of fact and very candid and I think he wrote it that way to make his truth believable for others. From his account of the brutality he witnessed and from his struggles to get an education I’m sure many that read his book at that time believed his truth.