This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including women’s position in society and the limitations of words as a mode of expression. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your...
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The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis)
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
978280801881454EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including women’s position in society and the limitations of words as a mode of expression. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 54-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Virginia Woolf
Presentation of The Voyage Out
Summary of The Voyage Out
Character study
Rachel Vinrace
Helen Ambrose
Ridley Ambrose
Terence Hewet
St John Hirst
Willoughby Vinrace
Analysis of The Voyage Out
An early modernist novel
Imperialism
Gender
A coming-of-age story and identity
Music and literature: the difficulty of expressing something real
Style
About The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf’s first novel, published in 1915. It tells the story of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman who has previously led a sheltered life in the care of her aunts and knows very little about the world. This all changes on a trip to South America, when her other aunt, Helen, persuades her father to let her stay with her and her husband in Santa Marina. There, Rachel learns about the world and about herself, begins to assert her own identity and falls in love, before tragedy puts an abrupt end to her newfound happiness.
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential figures of interwar English literature. She was born in London in 1882 and died in Sussex in 1941. She was a pioneer of the literary movement of Modernism, wrote a variety of essays, short stories and novels, and founded her own publishing house with her husband in 1917. Her best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves. She was plagued by mental health troubles throughout her life and committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including women’s position in society and the limitations of words as a mode of expression. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 54-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Virginia Woolf
Presentation of The Voyage Out
Summary of The Voyage Out
Character study
Rachel Vinrace
Helen Ambrose
Ridley Ambrose
Terence Hewet
St John Hirst
Willoughby Vinrace
Analysis of The Voyage Out
An early modernist novel
Imperialism
Gender
A coming-of-age story and identity
Music and literature: the difficulty of expressing something real
Style
About The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf’s first novel, published in 1915. It tells the story of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman who has previously led a sheltered life in the care of her aunts and knows very little about the world. This all changes on a trip to South America, when her other aunt, Helen, persuades her father to let her stay with her and her husband in Santa Marina. There, Rachel learns about the world and about herself, begins to assert her own identity and falls in love, before tragedy puts an abrupt end to her newfound happiness.
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential figures of interwar English literature. She was born in London in 1882 and died in Sussex in 1941. She was a pioneer of the literary movement of Modernism, wrote a variety of essays, short stories and novels, and founded her own publishing house with her husband in 1917. Her best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves. She was plagued by mental health troubles throughout her life and committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.application/pdf1
DOWNLOAD THIS GUIDEThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including women’s position in society and the limitations of words as a mode of expression. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 54-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Virginia Woolf
- Presentation of The Voyage Out
- Summary of The Voyage Out
- Character study
- Rachel Vinrace
- Helen Ambrose
- Ridley Ambrose
- Terence Hewet
- St John Hirst
- Willoughby Vinrace
- Analysis of The Voyage Out
- An early modernist novel
- Imperialism
- Gender
- A coming-of-age story and identity
- Music and literature: the difficulty of expressing something real
- Style
About The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf’s first novel, published in 1915. It tells the story of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman who has previously led a sheltered life in the care of her aunts and knows very little about the world. This all changes on a trip to South America, when her other aunt, Helen, persuades her father to let her stay with her and her husband in Santa Marina. There, Rachel learns about the world and about herself, begins to assert her own identity and falls in love, before tragedy puts an abrupt end to her newfound happiness.
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential figures of interwar English literature. She was born in London in 1882 and died in Sussex in 1941. She was a pioneer of the literary movement of Modernism, wrote a variety of essays, short stories and novels, and founded her own publishing house with her husband in 1917. Her best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves. She was plagued by mental health troubles throughout her life and committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.
Product details
| ISBN | 9782808018814 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
| Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
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| Pages | 54 |
| File size | 2.2 MB |
