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POP CRISTINA · Trimis: 12/05/2008 08:41 Titlul subiectului: Virginia Woolf: "To the Lighthouse"

Can you make a difference between Mister and Missis Ramsay? How are they alike?How are they different?[/quote]

POP CRISTINA · Trimis: 12/05/2008 08:56 Titlul subiectului:

take in consideration the following quotations
"What does one live for?Why, one asked oneself, does not take all these pains for the human race to go on? It is so desirable? Are we attractive as a species?"(121)

"She was ready to take his word for it, she said. Only then they need not cut sandwiches - that was all. They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that one wanting this,another that, the children were growing up, she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. Then he said,Damn you.He said,It won't rain and instantly a Heaven of security opened before her. There was nobady she reverence more.She was not good enought to tie his shoe strings, she thought."(45-46)

claudia solomes · Plunger Data inscrierii: 08/Mai/2008 Mesaje: 40

Yes,Mrs Ramsay and Mr Ramsay are two different personalities but I think they need one to another exactly this way.Mrs Ramsay with her kindness and her sensibility offers her husband what he needs most:sympathy...her approval and he does the same for her,I mean I think her husband is following her philosophy about man...

POP CRISTINA · Trimis: 22/05/2008 17:36 Titlul subiectului: Mr Ramsay and Lily

First of all thaks for answering my questions.
I agree with you and I consider that in his preoccupations towards art and its status over the time Mr Ramsay is more close to Lily.
he thinks about:"...an article in "The Times" about the number of Americans who visit Shakespeare's house every year.If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have diffrent much from what it is today? does the process of civilization depend upon great men?Is the lot of the the average human beeing, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?Possibly not.Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class."
(59)
Related to the same subject Lily arrived at the conclusion that everything can disappear except art: "...how 'you' and 'I' and 'she' pass and vanish;nothing stays; all changes; but not words, not paint."(242)

Larisa Sofineti · Trimis: 24/05/2008 19:09 Titlul subiectului: Virginia Woolf: "To the Lighthouse"

Mr. Ramsay and Mrs. Ramsay are completely different in character: he relies on his intellect, while she depends on her emotions. Like we see, Mr. Ramsay devotes himself to his progression of human thought, while Mrs. Ramsay take advantage of her relation experiences..

POP CRISTINA · Trimis: 02/06/2008 13:14 Titlul subiectului:

What about children?What's their attitude towards their parents?

I ask this because I consider James Ramsay a comlex and in the same time a strange character because of his hatred to his father and his veneration to his mother. I consider strange the fact that even if he hates his father he developes most of his characteristics the same once that made him suffer as a child.He is moody, easily offended, in need to be praised and quiet and most of this characteristics are seen when he sails to the Lighthouse with Cam and Mr.Ramsay.
What do you think? Is James diffrent from his father in the end?

POP CRISTINA · Trimis: 02/06/2008 13:20 Titlul subiectului:

How can you interpret Mr.Ramsay frequently repeated line from William Cowper poetry: "We parished, each alone!"?

I think that he refears to that unity that died with their lovely mother and wife.Her figure kept them together and now without her they don't know how to became a family again.