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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
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This was great but it definitely could have stayed a shorter essay
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Creo que la palabra inspiradora se queda poco para hablar de esta habitación. Es extraño que, aunque la mujer en el panorama literario ha avanzado muchísimo, a día de hoy muchas de las cosas que Virginia dijo en su tiempo sigan pudiendo ser aplicadas al nuestro. Creo que es prácticamente una lectura obligatoria para todas nosotras. Ver dónde empezamos, ver donde hemos llegado y el camino que aún nos queda por recorrer
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"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom."
An interesting treatise on how poverty inhibits creativity. In order to express oneself creatively one must have the luxury of free time, one must have enough wealth and privacy that one's thoughts aren't constantly interrupted by other people or with worries of being able to afford food, clothing, shelter. The focus is, deservedly so, on women. Women have historically been poorer than males of similar social status, both monetarily and due to the constant attention to child-rearing and maintaining a household.
"And women have always been poor...Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own."
Though that was the idea that struck me most keenly, she has a lot more to say than that. She writes about oppression, misogyny, feminism, history, philosophy, and psychology. She discuses the importance of tradition and role-models to writers (and the shallower depths women have to draw from) as well as integrity in writing (write your own truth, not for critics). She packed many interesting ideas about a dizzying array of subjects for such a small book.
I liked the writer's voice, she is fiercely independent and has a wry, lively intelligence. I liked her hopefulness for continued progress in gender equality and her subtle sarcasm when discussing the men who kept her out of libraries or wrote about the inferiority of women. I enjoyed her genuine enthusiasm for reading and writing and good food.
An interesting treatise on how poverty inhibits creativity. In order to express oneself creatively one must have the luxury of free time, one must have enough wealth and privacy that one's thoughts aren't constantly interrupted by other people or with worries of being able to afford food, clothing, shelter. The focus is, deservedly so, on women. Women have historically been poorer than males of similar social status, both monetarily and due to the constant attention to child-rearing and maintaining a household.
"And women have always been poor...Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own."
Though that was the idea that struck me most keenly, she has a lot more to say than that. She writes about oppression, misogyny, feminism, history, philosophy, and psychology. She discuses the importance of tradition and role-models to writers (and the shallower depths women have to draw from) as well as integrity in writing (write your own truth, not for critics). She packed many interesting ideas about a dizzying array of subjects for such a small book.
I liked the writer's voice, she is fiercely independent and has a wry, lively intelligence. I liked her hopefulness for continued progress in gender equality and her subtle sarcasm when discussing the men who kept her out of libraries or wrote about the inferiority of women. I enjoyed her genuine enthusiasm for reading and writing and good food.
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What
A room of one’s own discusses the history of women’s oppression in literature (specifically the impediments of good writing to women), the importance of experiencing life fully and writing well.
A room of one’s own discusses the history of women’s oppression in literature (specifically the impediments of good writing to women), the importance of experiencing life fully and writing well.
Begins presenting that women, in the eyes of men, have limitations, being Intellectual, morally physically inferior to men. This largely shared view in society creates pressure and lack of funds for women to have a room of their own to develop and express themselves.
For a room of one’s own and the funds to do so would provide women writers with the opportunity to be themselves, express themselves & become more than societies household carer. Wolfe gives many credits to female writers of the past that have failed and succeeded at creating excellent works despite these distractions. And explains that these writers have contributed to the opportunity for young women now to be able to experience life fully, be themselves fully and write about it.
How
Wolfe writes with great insight and wit. Her dedication to good writing is clearly evident. It was enjoyable to digest. The writing felt sightly superfluous, however the novel is short, and the gives her an opportunity to entertain.
True
Yes. Close to all of what was explored felt true and illuminating. For me, a male reading the book 100 years post production, the talking points were interesting, did not feel like everyday conversation and certainly carried truth regardless for sex of the subject or the reader.
What of it
It seems that without the financial and intellectual independence to support a life of freedom comfortably, that there will be limitations for any human to fully be themselves or have the time to express themselves well. The examples of the past that provide humans inspiration to be whatever they enjoy, continuously provide more ammunition for society to accept and support these ways of living. Thereby not discouraging others from living this way. Again this feels regardless of sex, although it’s clear in the book that society has accepted this from males and less from females. Today, I see sex as irrelevant in the authors I read, which I guess must be a good sign of progression in women’s writing.
Although with constant rise of Cost in living & significant development in consumer business at present, it does feel society pressures have increased to distract everyday people from living with the freedom Wolfe desired for women.
This exaggerates the importance developing our own courage and application in everyday choices leaning towards moderation to in turn develop an healthy soul.
Best bits
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
all this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot