“A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf

Women’s thrive in literary, political and social arena triggered widespread male anxiety and repugnance.  The images constructed by men of what the woman should or should not be were still hunting women becoming a great obstacle toward their freedom.

Virginia Woolf  argues that capacity of women’s abilities was underestimated. Women were always viewed as inferior, they didn’t receive same education as men, thus they simply didn’t have a chance to try themselves if different professions. Virginia says that no one can know what a woman was capable of “until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.”  In the eighteenth century it would hardly be possible, because every woman that showed any interest in science would be proclaimed a witch and burnt alive. Virginia in A Room of One’s Own confronts a bishop that stated that “it was impossible for any woman, past, present, or to come, to have the genius of Shakespeare.” She explains that it was so easy for a men to get  education, good job and succeed than for a woman. Men would laugh in her face and never let her even close to the stage. Today we can see that Woolf was right and there are women in every profession; women are in the government, they are in the military, women chiefs, women soldiers, women scientists. Women proved that they can be equal to men in every field.