PHILOS 1E03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Elizabethan Era
25 Mar 2017
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Readings 17 virginia woolf a room of ones own . Woolf focuses on the relationship between women, literature, and the sexist struggle for women. She turns towards history and its facts to look at the conditions and oppression women lived in such times such as the elizabethan era in england. Turning to the history of england: marriage was not about personal affection butt moreso family avarice, these concepts of marriage engulfed themselves in predominantly the upper class. This contrast to what we see in literature brings about a very opposing image: imaginatively we see women of the highest importance where in reality, they are looked at as insignificant. For the women in sixteenth century england who were gifted and talented like. There are difficulties when writing poetry regardless of sex: it comes with many restraints and issues set up with location: however for women, these difficulties were infinitely worse.
