A Room Of Ones Own, Virginia Woolf

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A Room of One’s Own The article, “A Room of One’s Own”, Virginia Woolf talks about women’s independence. She talks about how women during 1929 were not allowed to do a lot of things that women of today has the privilege of doing such as attending universities and expressing themselves creatively. The essay focuses on women and fiction. She mentions that woman needs a room of her own to write just like the title of her article. During her time the social status and women’s creativity were not appreciated. Women did not have enough resources to become a writer which resulted in the few great women writer during her period. Because there was lack of resources and due to their materialistic circumstances, it limited the women’s lives and achievements. Because women were not educated and were not allowed to do anything such as control wealth, they necessarily led lives that were less publicly significant than those of men. These led to women’s inferior social status in the society. These types of ideology still exist in the society. As I am from Nepal, these kinds of practice or ideas still exist in the society. Due to the poorness and backwardness of the society, the social status of women is still behind. Women are not given equal opportunities as men. The girls in the family do not get the equal treatment. For example, boys are always the first priority of the parents for everything such as education, health, wealth etc. Because women do not get the proper education, they have to dependent on the men all their life for every necessities and every part of their life. Women cannot make decisions and most of them are house wives. Women cannot bring out their creativity out in public because they are being suppressed by the society. Example, in the Middle East, it is against the culture of Muslim women to show their skin in public and get severely punished if they do.

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