Name :-Vala Jyotsna T
Semester :- 3
Class :- M.A part 2
Paper Name :- Modenist Literature
Topic :- Character Sketch of Mrs.Ramsay and Lily Briscoe in To
The Lighthouse.
RollNo :- 33
Email Id :- [email protected]
Submitted to :- SMT S.B.Gardi Department of english MKBU.
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born on 25th January, 1882.
She is a novelist, essayist, publisher and critic.
Died in 28 March,1941.
Her Famous Works
To The Lighthous (1927).
Mr.Dalloway (1925).
Jacob' Room (1922).
The Waves.
A room of one's own.
Introduction To The Lighthouse
The novel To The Lighthouse is written by Virginia Woolf.
Published in 1927.
The novel contains the narrative technique of Stream of
Consciousness and observation by character.
To The Lighthouse centers on the family of Mr. And Mrs
Ramsay.
The novel is landmark of high modernism.
This novel divided in to three parts.
The Window
Time passes
The Lighthouse.
Female Character in To The Lighthouse
Mrs.Ramsay.
Lily Briscoe.
Prue Ramsay.
Rose Ramsay.
Nancy Ramsay.
Cam Ramsay.
In this novel there are two major woman character, first is
Mrs.Ramsay and another is Lily Briscoe.
Both contain different way of thinking and accepting the
world.
Chracter Sketch of Mrs. Ramsay.
Mrs.Samsay is the central character in the novel and also at the
center of her family.
Mrs.Ramsay, a woman belonging to the Victorian age.
Mrs.Ramsay is a wife of Mr.Ramsay and mother of eight
childrens.
She is a house wife ans she manages the whole house and
family.
Conti...
She is a beautiful and loving woman.She is a wonderful hostess
who take pride in making memorable experience for the guests at the
family's summer home on the Isle of skye.
Mrs.Ramsay's talent of bringing people together an art.
She is a critical thinker of a different sort than is usually
expected.
Mrs. Ramsay is a great amount of dignity, according to
Woolf.
Mrs. Ramsay portrayal in image of fertility and softness.
Conti..
Mrs.Ramsay is the character who is constantly present not only
worldly present but also in the mind of the character.
She is an ideal woman as per all male in the novel.
Mrs.Ramsay fits in that frame very perfectly, a good wife,
mother, caretaker, cook, knitter and a perfect woman who manage the
house.
Conti...
Mrs. Ramsay is performing her duty well, not because she want to
be a good woman but she is doing that because in that way.
Her every effort is connected with other's happyness and her own
image of Angel.
She is thinking about her family and her house only, she is very
conscious about other's comments upon her nature.
She is a dutiful and loving wife but often struggel with her
husband's difficult and selfishness.
She questions her self and her motives and looks opened eye at
her fauits.
In the last part of the novel Mrs.Ramsay is died.
Character Sketch of Lily Briscoe.
Lily Briscoe is a free manded and independent woman of 21th
century.
She is a individual creative artist as well as sensible
lady.
She is a also central character of the novel.
A young, single painter who befriend the Ramsay on the Isle of
skye.
She is unattached to family, merely a friend of the family.
Conti...
In the novel Lily is portray as a New Woman.
Lily Briscoe is totally oppose from Mrs.Ramsay but in same way
she wants to be like Mrs. Ramsay.
Lily Briscoe is not a traditional protagonist for a novel.
She is quiet, reserved, unassuming.
She is not famous or highly regarded by a community.
Conti...
Lily Briscoe decided that she will not marry and that she will
paint.
That movement does not exempt her farm the role assigned to
woman in her society.
Character of lily Briscoe gives us glimpse of contemporary
woman, and her ignorance and straight forward of Charles Tansley is
very significantly present her character.
Conti...
Charles Tansley used to say that, she remembered, Woman can't
paint, can't write. Coming up behind her, he had stood close beside
her, a thing she hated, as she painted her on this very spot
(Woolf).
She is never depended upon any one. Her every act and wish is
related with her happiness.
At the end of the novel Briscoe has found her vision.
Binaries between these two character.
Mrs.Ramsay.
Angel in the house.
Conscious about her image.
Thinking about her family and society.
Her art for family sake.
Artistic qualities like decorating the fruit basket, taking care
of garden and knitting.
At the end she was died.
Lily Briscoe.
Angel in the world.
Couscious about her identity.
Thinking about her own self.
Her art is for life sake.
Artistic qualities like her ability of painting but that ability
influence her every time.
At the end she has found her vision.
Conclusion...
In the novel express about human's different behaviour and how
to struggel woman in life.
Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe both are appropriate in the
novel.
Thank you......
