A Room of One's Own is a feminist essay by Virginia Woolf, delivered to students of women's colleges at Cambridge University. Woolf discusses the historical oppression of women with respect to education and economic freedom, sometimes making arguments through hypothetical figures like "Judith Shakespeare," William's sister who would have been unable to cultivate such genius because she would have been oppressed by men, denied education and freedom. Woolf also discusses lesbianism and censorship and avoiding such suppression.
Literature apart from being a written works with artistic value are also media forms in which the writer author expresses and conveys to the audience his her own interpretation of the social realities that exist in human society Through literature humans are able to reflect their own experiences of lifes joys and sufferings experiences that mark significant events that influenced the way people behaved and acted within human society As a media form literary works are effective media wherein the
In both Shakespeares Taming of the Shrew and Wolfes A Room of Ones own the writers illustrate the deviously suffocating repercussions of sexism on liberty and the human spirit Judith and Katherine are both intelligent and free spirited characters with the brightest of futures yet society and its rules perniciously choke their existence from them The slow destruction of each woman is made more tragic by the promise and potential stolen from them and the world An example of Judiths untapped intel
In A Room of Ones Own Virginia Woolf discusses many topics in her discussion of Women and Fiction that lead her into thoughts of other intrigues In the sixth chapter Woolf begins with staring out her window in London watching the traffic of the street She is in some ways comparing it to the world of Shakespeare but is distracted by all the differences in the ways of the people Woolf sees that the people walking around the town do not care about the state of literature and would not even care if