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Symbolism in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
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... ANG 9247 Written by: Dora Mosonyi Virginia Woolf as a Critic and a Novelist 4th-year English major Dr. Surányi Ágnes Number of words: 3547 Symbolism in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse In this essay I would like to interpret the symbols in the novel and see how these correspond to Woolf's life. Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882. Almost from the beginning, her life was an insecure balance of extraordinary success and mental instability. Woolf descended from a prestigious Victorian literary family so she grew up among the most important and influential British intellectuals of her time and she had received free access to explore her father's library. The mark of both her literary ancestry and her struggle to find meaning in her own unsteady existence appears in her writings. "Her works reflect a probing examination of the structures within which human life exists, from the nature of interpersonal relationships to














