Summary
Virginia Woolf: The Lighthouse
A novel by the British author published in the original in 1927. The story begins at the moment when the Ramsay family arrives at the summer house overlooking the lighthouse...
The central theme of the novel is the depiction of the inner life of Mrs. Ramsay, who tries to establish relationships in the family by canceling herself. In the political sense, the novel marks the emphasis on the right to human freedom, in the psychological role of the subconscious, and in the stylistic sense, it is a novel of the stream of consciousness.
From the very title to the last pages of the book, the lighthouse itself is in the center. He is an object, a sign, and a symbol. As an object, it is part of the narrative thread, as a sign, it is the fundamental support of the visual representation, which is parallel and simultaneous with the whole action, and as a symbol (surpassing the initial narrative or parallel pictorial plan, and connecting not so much the sea and the sky as what they can mean), it is revealed — in the complex work of all memories and imaginings — as the bearer of light and beauty, meaning and knowledge: of mysterious life on the mysterious background of darkness and death.
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