Sunday, April 12, 2009
TRUTH!
Virginia Woolf definitely started a new way of thinking in the post-moderism era. Instead of everything having one answer for everybody, things started to have options. What was right for one person may be right or wrong for another. She couldn't find her capital "T" truths in the books of history. So she realized truth was found in each person, not in a society. Women could have been as big of a success in literature, if they had only been given the opportunity. Instead they were looked at to keep track of the kids and keep the house in order. If they had only had a room and possibility to do anything literature of the past could be completely different.
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I would agree with your idea of literature becoming an entire new thing and viewed differently. At the same time what about today, do we not still see sexism in our every day life? I just completed a reprot about household incomes and on average I found out men make 65 thousand a year while women only make 35 thousand. Rather sugnifficant jump I would say. Its just crazy how our society says we are so equal yet here we are with it every single day. I think that it is interesting and Woolfe brought it up in a good way, she didnt attack anyone just pointed out the not so obvious.
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