To the Lighthouse Study Guide
“To the Lighthouse” is the fifth novel of the legendary author Virginia Woolf. The text offers a pleasurable journey to the magnificent Scottish land site called the Isle of Skye. Great focus on the philosophy and analysis in this book makes it a wonderful text where every reader will find something for himself.
“To the Lighthouse” is a complex book, which doesn't open up right away. It takes time for the text to grow into the reader’s perception. The text is like a skeptical critic that is waiting for you to feel your own internal state and tune into the same mode. And only once you’ve prepared your own baggage of thoughts and memories, the book unrolls in the heavy smells, charged concepts, and intoxicated thoughts.
The book is divided into three parts and there are numerous narrators who tell the stories: these are the stories of their childhoods, their relationships, their lives, their marriages, and their memories. The Ramsays family is running away from the World War II to the Scottish islands. There they accept guests, express their feelings for each other and make promises they are not able to keep.
The plot is secondary, if not tertiary, for the internal line of thoughts that run in the text. The spicy smell of the emotions will make your head go round, and the stream of conscious writing style makes every breath of the characters very vivid and real. This is a very subjective perception of the given reality that is created by your own interpretations.
Virginia Woolf wrote a magnificent text that makes every reader plunge deep into its meaning. Your thoughts will be captured by her fascinating masterpiece that managed to tune down all the voices in the world to make her monologue heard. She makes you feel like a God of the universe created specifically for you.
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