Week 12 Analysis

This week I will be doing a close reading of "A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN" by the author Virginia Woolf. The part of the text the was intriguing to me was "It referred me unmistakably to the one book, to the one phrase, which had roused the demon; it was the professor’s statement about the mental, moral and physical inferiority of women. My heart had leapt. My cheeks had burnt. I had flushed with anger. There was nothing specially remarkable, however foolish, in that. One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man—I looked at the student next me—who breathes hard, wears a ready-made tie, and has not shaved this fortnight (p.356)". What this passage is basically saying that her teach which i believe is a man is saying how much lower women are in the context of intelligence, physical ability, and a variety of other things. While she is listen to her teach say this comment form a book to the class she felt angry and mad that someone could think this and actually say out loud to people. She also thinks to herself as to why people do not see women and men as equal since we are all the same human beans. She uses a lot a bit of metaphors when she is describing her anger for the subject, like when she's comparing her heart beat to that of the action leap. The theme that the author Virginia Woolf is trying to show is that there is a big problem with the inequality between women in men in that time period around the entire world. She also envisions a future in which there will be no gender-based division of labor and were men no longer hold this power in a patriarchy society.