Virginia Woolf
In the first selection of A Room of One's Own, Woolf invents a character, Judith Shakespeare. Judith has the same abilities and talents as William, but is denied the chance that William had because she is a woman. Judith is a talented, adventourous women who was not able to express herself and that led to her suicide. It is sad to think about that women back then were not allowed to express themselves. We have come along way since those days.
In Androgyny, Woolf talks about how she feels that literature should be androgynous. It should not have a completely male feel and it should not have a completely female feel. It should be both. I agree. Every book that I have read and enjoyed was wrote in and androgynous way. I do not like completely female "chick" novels. And I definitely do not like completely male novels. It is better when there are both of both worlds in it. Below is an article that I found very intersting about Virginia Woolf's androgyny
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