The Hours 《时时刻刻》.ppt

The Hours 《時時刻刻》  Virginia Woolf was born in England in 1882, and died early during World War II. T. S. Eliot said while she lived she was the center of literary life in London; she wrote essays and novels and book reviews. She was married to a publisher, Leonard Woolf, and she was related to a group of people who were rigorously intellectual and who sought a world that was more humane. To them, known as The Bloomsbury Group, as to us, that meant a world that was accepting of differences. Virginia Woolf and Feminist Movement Virginia Woolf’s impact on western civilization was to reinvigorate the Feminist Movement. Women in England got the vote in 1920, and with that big achievement, the movement became quiet. Woolf delivered her lectures to women in college in 1929. She pointed out the other achievements that were attained in her lifetime: two colleges for women; a married woman’s right to possess her own property; the vote; and in the last ten years the opening of most professions. Women as An Inferior Sex? Nonetheless, there was outright discrimination against women as an inferior sex, and Woolf herself was kept out of the library at Cambridge. The reading about the contrast between the meal at the rich men’s college and the sparse meal at the poor women’s college led her to ask why women are poor. She answers her question by saying because they have children, and often a lot of children, and even to earn money was impossible, and they have been denied control of their own wealth which was controlled only by husbands or fathers. Woolf ‘s Response Virginia Woolf does not advocate an angry response to the hostility of men. “If you are always comparing your lot with the lot of men, if you are always thinking how much easier it is for them to earn a living than for you—you will have an enemy within who is always sapping your strength and poisoning your happiness.” Stream of Consciousness “……to describe the unbroken flow of thought and awareness in th