Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
In Woolf’s piece she is observing life at a campus. She is going through all the motions and emotions of going back to campus life. She compares life before and after the war. She also put her own ideas into whatever she saw that day. One part that stood out was her saying of “… woman must have money and a room of her own if she issue to write fiction…”. This idea was spoken about in the beginning of the chapter but was addressed throughout it. Women before the war were not looked upon society as societal members. They were the people that would take care of the kids and all the household chores. Even further if a woman did earn her own money it would be given to her husband. The man was the dominant figure in this time. Women in Woolf’s time still didn’t have equal power to man, it isn’t until the start of our generation that we see women have and equal and more important role in society to men. But for a women to get her ideas down, for her voice to be heard and her ideas respected she had to earn respect. The only way to do this though was for a women to have money. Through her money and her use of the english language in writing she can voice her opinion. The room also has significance because it is the area where the women could think with her won thoughts and not be disturbed by and distractions. Without this a women would not be able to do what she wants. She would be stuck with the household chores and not be able to do what she may truly want (in this example, write fiction).