Light and shadow in To The Lighthouse.

... Bojan Stojanovski Light and Shadow In To The Lighthouse To the Lighthouse uses many different literary forms, such as images, to either describe or advance the plot or to portray the characters' and overall general feeling and mood. One group of images Virginia Woolf uses extensively includes images of night, darkness, daylight, sun, moon, flame, fire, lamplight, candle, shade, shadow, and variations of the aforementioned. As a rule, dark images usually suggest the threatening, the fearful, the abysses of time and space, and death. Conversely, the light images suggest the joyful, the desire, the sanctuary, and life. However, Virginia Woolf's images are constantly shifting in meaning and emphasis giving them a much richer and sophisticated take as a whole. In the novel To The Lighthouse, the images of darkness continue to be used, always smoothly incorporated into the novel. The fluidity of their meaning continues, too, as darkness symbolizes chaos, peace,

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