Character analysis of " To the lighthouse. "

Character analysis of " To the lighthouse. "

>  introduction : 

        

                         To the Lighthouse was written by Virginia woolf,1927. the novel centres idea on the Ramsay family and their visits to  the Isle of Skye in scotland between 1910 and 1920.

                      Virginia woolf 's  To the Lighthouse was Landmark for or both author and also development of the novel in England.

               

> about Virginia woolf : 

        

                           born into a authority English household in 1882 Virginia woolf boys raised by free thinking parents she began writing as a young girl and and published her first novel the voyage out in 1950.  she wrote modern classics including mrs.Dalloway to the lighthouse and orlando, as well as feminist works. A room of one's own and three Guineas,in her personal depression.she was committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.

   From the time of her birth Woolf spent her summers in st.ives a beach town at the southwestrn tip of England. The stephens summer home. Talland house, which was still standing today, looks out of the dramatic porth minster bay and has a view of the god revy lighthouse. Which inspired her writing. In her latter memories Woolf recalled st.ives with a great fondness. In fact, she include scenes from those early summer in to her modernist novel to the lighthouse 1927.

> Literary work :   

              Servel years before marriage leonard, virginia had begin working on her first novel.  The original title is melymbrosia. After 9 years and incalculable drafts, it was related in 1915 as the voyage out virginia Woolf used the book experiment with several literary toots including compelling and abnormal narrative perspective. woolf's bought a used printing press and admitted Hogarth press, their own publishing house operated out of their home Hogarth house. 

  A year after the end of world war,the Woolf's purchased monks house, a cottage in to the village of ramello in 1919, and same year virginia published night and day, a novel set in Edwardian england.woolf's second novel " Night and day" was published in 1919, her famous essay on the contemporary fiction, included in the common reader, in the essay she strongly expresses her discontened with the current from of the novel represent by the noves of Bennett, wells and Galsworthy.her in their novels life escapes because life is not like what they, specially present in their famous novels. 

Woolf's third novel jacob's room was published by Hogarth in 1922. It was bazed on her brother thoby,  it was conside a significant starting from her earlyer novels with its modernist element she met author, poet and landscape gardener vita sackville- west,  the wife of English diplomat harold Nicola. Woolf's and vita began a friendship that developed in to a remain friens until virginia Woolf death.

In 1925, woolf received review for Mr.Dalloway her fourth novels. The story of novel interior Monologues and raised issues of feminism, mentaily illness and homosexuality in post- world war england. A 1998 novel by Michal clunnigham and a 2002 film adaptation.

Most successful novel  to the lighthouse was considered revolutionary for its flaw of consciousness. In the novel explain the subtext of human relationship of the lives ramsay family as they vacation on the Isle of skye in scotland. 

   Woolf found a litrary in sackville west, in the inspiration for woolf's 1928,novel of orlando, which is Follows an English Nobleman who mysteriously becames woman at age of 30 and lives on for over three centuries of English history.  Woolf who recieved critical compliment for the ground breaking work, as well as newfound level of popularity. 

> About novel “ To The Lighthouse " :-

           This book is without a plot ! What story there is can be summarized quickly? Mr. Ramsay is a philosopher and his wife is a famous beauty, both in middle age, are staying with their 8 children and various guests at their summer holiday home the Hebrides, islands off Scotland. Conflicts greens and fall in Part One, especially between Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, but also within individual characters’ minds. We see the migration flow of thought and relationships from various points of view. The day culminate  in a dinner in which union is triumphantly achieved, at least for a moment. In Part Two the things fall apart,time ravage the house, and we learn in passing that Mrs. Ramsay has shockingly died. Also a daughter Prue, has died in childbirth, and a son, Andrew has been killed in First World War. Blackness and anarchy lift at last as the housekeeper got to work on the decrepit house and discuss the family’s coming return. Part Three is a re-visiting of Part One; now Mr. Ramsay is back at the holiday house with some of the remaining children and original guests, including the artist Lily Briscoe. Mrs. Ramsay’s absence is vast, as is the question of how to find union again, and the living characters struggle with both. In the end, a tenuous connection is made of once more between the characters, and between past and present.

> Characters : 

Mrs. Ramsay -  Mr. Ramsay’s wife. She was beautiful and loving woman, Mrs. Ramsay is a wonderful sister who take pride in making memorable experiences for the guest  at the family’s summer home on the Isle of Skye. Affirming traditional gender roles she improvident particular attention on her male guests, who she was believes have Quick egos and requirement support and sympathy. She was beautiful and loving wife but often struggles with her husband’s difficult moods and selfishness. Without Dwindle however, she conquest through these difficult times and ability to make something pregnant and lasting from the most of fact, such as a dinner party.

Mr. Ramsay -  

Mrs. Ramsay’s husband was a metaphysical philosopher. Mr. Ramsay loves his family but often acts like something of a outrageous. He tends to be selfish and savage suitable to his persistent Personal and professional worry . He fears, more than more anything, that his work is craven in the grand intimate put of things and that he will not be recalled by future generations. Well notice of how blessed he is to have such a wonderful family, he never theless tends to punish his wife, children, and guests by demanding their constant sympathy, attention, and support.

> Lily Briscoe -  

A young, single limner who be friends the Ramsays on the Isle of Skye. Like Mr. Ramsay, Lily is  by fright in that her work lack worth. She was begins a phosphoric of Mrs. Ramsay at the beginning of the novel but has trouble finishing it. The opinions of men like Charles Tansley, who darkey that women cannot paint or write,  to under mine her confidence.Free spirit Lily Briscoe is intense, thinking she is in love with the Ramsays, the island, the house and perhaps Paul Rayley. Malice her freedom and disinclination to follow a traditional life, Lily is unsafe about her work and her choices. She grows careful with Charles Tansley, who insists women cannot be artists, and is envious of beautiful and seemingly pacific Mrs. Ramsay, who seem to get everything she wants. Many Years later Mrs. Ramsay's death, Lily returns to Scotland to confront her loss and paint her picture again, this time was finishing it.

> James Ramsay -

  The Ramsays’ youthful son. James loves his mother  feels a murderous aversion toward his father, with whom he must compete for Mrs. Ramsay’s love and emotions. At the beginning of the novel, Mr. Ramsay refuses the 6 year old James’s request to go to the lighthouse, saying that the  will be filthy and not permit it was ten years later, James finally makes the journey with his father and his sister Cam.he has grown into a willful and moody young man who has much in common with his father, whom he detests.

> Paul Rayley -

 A young friend of the Ramsays who visits them on the Isle of Skye. Paul is a kind, impressionable young man who follows Mrs. Ramsay’s wishes in marrying Minta Doyle.

> Minta Doyle - 

 A flighty year young woman who visits the Ramsays on the Isle of Skye. Minta marry Paul Rayley at Mrs. Ramsay’s wishes.

> Charles Tansley -

  A young philosopher and pupil of Mr. Ramsay who stay  with the Ramsays on the Isle of Skye. Tansley is a thorny and unpopular man who  deep regarding his background. He often insult other people, women such as Lily, whose talent and he constantly calls into question. His bad behavior, like Mr. Ramsay’s, is motivation by his need for reinsurance 

> William Bankes - 

 A biologist and old friend of the Ramsays who stay on the Isle of Skye. Bankes is a kind and sweet sounded man whom Mrs. Ramsay hopes will marry Lily Briscoe. Although he never married her, Bankes and Lily  close friends.

> Augustus Carmichael  - 

A using the poet who visits the Ramsays on the Isle of Skye. Carmichael languishes in literary insignificance until his verse becomes popular during the war.

> Andrew Ramsay -  

The oldest of the Ramsays’ sons. Andrew is a competent, independent young man, and he was look forward to a career as a mathematician.

> Jasper Ramsay -  

One of the Ramsays’ sons,Jasper, to his mother’s chagrin, enjoys shooting birds.

> Roger Ramsay -  

One of the Ramsays’ son. Name Roger is wild and adventurous, like his sister Nancy.

> Prue Ramsay -  

The oldest Ramsay girl, a beautiful and pretty young woman. Mrs. Ramsay charm in  Prue’s marriage, which she believes will be ecstatic. 

> Rose Ramsay -  

One of the Ramsays’ daughter. Name Rose has a talent for making things beautiful. She arranges the fruit for her mother’s dinner party and picks out her mother’s jewelry.

> Nancy Ramsay -

  One of the Ramsays’ daughters who Nancy go with Paul Rayley and Minta Doyle on trip to the beach. Like her brother Roger, she is a wild adventurer.

> Cam Ramsay - 

 One of the Ramsays’ daughters. As a young girl. She boat with James and Mr. Ramsay to the lighthouse in the novel’s final section.Cam is defiant turn down to listen to her nurse maid and mother. Like Lily Briscoe, she is independent, but her youth prevent her independence from taking real form. Because of a later she with James to with stand their father's supremacy her objectivity causes conflict between the brother or sister as she  resolve against their father, seeing him at his most charming. She shares in and understands James's pleasure when Mr. Ramsay finally him for his sailing.

> Mrs. McNab -

  An elderly woman who takes care of the Ramsays’ house on the Isle of Skye, it after 10 years of neglect during and after World War 

> Macalister - 

 The fisherman who  the Ramsays to the lighthouse. Macalister relates stories of shipwreck and  adventure to Mr. Ramsay and James on his handling of the boat while James lands it at the lighthouse.

> Macalister’s Boy - 

The fisherman’s boy. He rows James, Cam, and Mr. Ramsay to the lighthouse.