MY PRESENTATION ON SYMBOLISM IN TO THE LIGHT HOUSE

1. Presented by: Ranjan P. Velari
Paper No.: 9 (The Modern Literature)
Class: M.A. Sem-3
Batch Year: 2014-16
Enrolment No.: 14101032
Email Id: ranjanvelari@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt.S.B.Gardi
Department of English
M.K. Bhavnagar University

2.  IntroductIon of VIrgInIa
Woolf:
Adeline Virginia Woolf
• Born on 25th January,1882
• Died on 28th March,1941
• She was an English writer and one of the
foremost modernist of the twentieth century

3. Important Works of Woolf:
• Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
• To the Lighthouse(1927)
• Orlando (1928)
• A Room of One's Own (1929) the book-
length with its famous dictum, "A woman
must have money and a room of her
own if she is to write fiction."

4. What is the meaning of
Symbolism?
• It is the figure of speech
• Representation of something
• It’s create certain mood or emotion in literature
• Artistic and poetic movement
• It originated in late 19th
century in France and
Belgium

5. Various symbols used in this novel:
• Lighthouse: Titular Significance
• Lily’s Painting
• Ramsay’s Summer House
• The Sea, the Storms, the rock, reefs and shallow water
• The Boar’s Skull
• Rose’s arrangement of the grapes and pears
• Refrigerator in the Catalogue
• Fisherman & his Wife

6. •It symbolizes light and darkness
• Spiritual hermit for traveler of the sea
• Mrs.Ramsay spiritual bridge between other
humans
•Symbol of spiritual strength and emotional
guidance

7. • Woman’s struggle in patriarchal
society
• “ Woman can’t paint or write”,
this sentence is against gender
convention
• Lily expresses the desire of Mrs.
Ramsay through her painting
• Painting: Vision of Lily Briscoe

8. •It symbolizes collective consciousness of the
characters
• House: Physical condition
•Characters: Psychological condition
•Mrs. Ramsay’s dinner party presents her own
inner notions of untidiness and inability to
preserve beauty.
• “Time Passes” section presents war and
destruction and time reflected in the condition
of the house rather than the emotional
development.

9. Storm Wind Water
Mind Emotions
Metaphorical meaning of storm
Inner Demons

10. The Rocks, Reef and Shallow
Water
•Dangers and Miseries
• Hopelessness or the end
of an emotional turmoil

11. • Reminder that death is always at hand
•Symbolizes transient nature of art and
life.
• Mrs. Ramsay’s covering it with her
shawl represents her desire to preserve
life.
• Mrs. Ramsay’s understanding nature
and enduring power to suffer for others
–as she wraps it with her shawl

12. • Rose arranges fruit basket for
her mother’s dinner party, it
symbolically presents guests’
private suffering and unite them.
• Basket symbolizes frozen
quality of beauty that Lily
describes and it is seductive and
soothingly quality.

13. Refrigerator:
• It is tool for conserving food and
symbol of preservation, change, and
instrument of science
In the context of the novel-
•Mrs. Ramsay’s role as a preserver and
shaper of culture
•She imposed idea on children’s mind.
Catalogue:
• Army & Navy stores
• It does not have a date or name
• war and consumption
• consumerism

14. • The wife keeps asking her
husband to return to the sea
and request more and more
from the flounder
• Mr. Ramsay’s rejecting the
possibility of a sea excursion,
Mrs. Ramsay repeatedly and
unreasonably insists on the
possibility of fair weather.

15. •She is subverting the misogyny of the fairytale.
•Myth about the dangers of unopposed female
will and desire.
•The fairytale is subverted and instead of the
dangers of female willfulness and desire we are
faced with the dangers and horrors of male
willfulness and desire.