VIRGINIA WOOLF : TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

VIRGINIA WOOLF : TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

Author: Virginia Woolf

Year of Publication: 1927

Type of work: Novel

Age: The Modern Age

      To The Lighthouse is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism the text, which centres on the Ramsey’s and their visits to the “Isle of Skye” in Scotland between 1910-1920.

 The novel is set in the Ramsay’s summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. There are three parts in the novel. Part-1 The Window.

Part-2 Time Passes.

Part-3 The Lighthouse

In part-1 (1914- 1919) Mrs. Ramsey assures her son James to visit the lighthouse on the next day, but Mr. Ramsey denies to go there due to unclear weather and creates tension between Mr. and Mrs. And James and Mr. Ramsey.

      Part-2 (1939-1945) gives a sense of time passing during, which the four year “First World War” begins and ends. Mrs. Ramsey passes away pure dies from complication of childbirth, and Andrew is killed in war. Mr. Ramsey is left adrift without wife, and stayed busy in his philosophical work.

      In the final part, the lighthouse some of Ramsey and other quests suture to their summer home ten years after the wents of part one. Mr. Ramsey finally plants on tacking the long- delayed trip to the lighthouse with his son James and daughter Camilla.

   The novel includes tittle dialogue and almost no action most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships.