DISCUSSION QUESTIONS for A Room of Ones Own, chapters 1-3
****SOURCE: http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/PikliNatalia/Virginia_Woolf_-_A_Room_of_Ones_Own.pdf
1) How does Woolf use physical spaces, and her narrators movement through them, to advance her argument?
2) Can you describe Woolfs style of sentence writing? How do the poetic techniques of imagery and metaphor contribute to her essay?
3) What is the significance of World War I in this essay?
4) How does Woolf account for womens poverty? For the absence of womens history?
5) What does Woolf mean by patriarchy?
6) What is Woolfs attitude toward anger? How does this relate to her own writing style?
7) In the questions above, I have referred to Woolf? Who is the I in her essay?
8) What does the fictional professor add? What does the story of Judith Shakespeare add?
9) What does she mean by genius? Why has there been no woman Shakespeare?
10) What lines made you laugh?
11) With which statements did you agree? Disagree? How does your own historical situation affect your responses?
12) What are the fundamental changes that have taken place between Shakespeares time and Woolfs? Between Woolfs and ours?
13) Does Woolf want to be an insider? Does she want women to be insiders?
14) How does she illustrate the connection between material conditions, sensations, and the psyche or subjectivity? Where does she locate the soul?
15) What corrodes an artists confidence? How is this gendered?
*** I also upload the file which is the source, you can read and answer the questions 🙂 Thank you
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