Tragic But Beautiful Female Spirits World

Virginia W6olf(1882-1941)was one of the distinguish female writers in British contemporary literature history. She was an outstanding representative of 20th century's British contemporary literature and novels on stream of consciousness, as well as a pioneer of women movement.Woolf was at the intelligent aristocrat stratum formed at Queen Victorian Period. She was born at a time with great thoughts, great works and outstanding writers. This brought her the distinguish literature capacity at the age of 9. After she has stepped into the field of literature, Bloomsbury group's spirits of despising tradition, loving truth and holding the view of equivalence between men and women, have great effect on her ideas. Woolf has devoted her life to the reform of novels and the innovation of arts. Before her death, she has wrote 9 long novels, some short novels, a drama a biography, and more than 300 of jottings, book reviews and articles, which completely discusses the reform ideas of contemporary novels and the theory of novels on the stream of consciousness.In fact, the Victorian society in which Woolf lived was a man-center society, hence, women had no rights on economic life, politic life and education. Although Woolf was born in the rich family, she had never received the regular school education, what's more, she had ever been refused by some universal libraries. The unfair treatment aroused great indignation in Woolf, which was one of the sources bringing her feminism ideas. Besides this, the strong experience on sex humiliation was the most important sources helping her to form her feminism ideas. Woolf thought the sex humiliation and pressure from men were women's historical facts, as a result, she devoted herself to constructing a new co-sex relations, fighting for the acceptance of women's freedom, and women's rights.Woolf was eager to get rid of the bondage from man's value standard and ideas system, but the man-center utterance rights at that time filled her heart with anxietyand terrified her. Moreover, her mother, older sister, father and older brother, one after another died, which shown her the cruelty of life. These tortures kept her lonely, and made death protruding in her works, which expressed her understanding and thinking of death.In order to express her ideas against the man-center society and her deliberation on death, Woolf made good use of and modified the stream of consciousness in her novel creation: Spot on the Wall was the first novel, in which the stream of consciousness was used. In the novel, the principle that time and consciousness are the central has been set up; Mrs. Dalloways and To the Lighthouse had shown the very good use of skills on the description of inner monologue, inner analysis, feeling, the shift of time. Hence, the two novels were her representative works; the Wave oversteps the frame of novels on the stream of consciousness. It is the combination of poem and novel. Although Virginia Woolf ended her life in the river, the sad but beautiful woman spirits world created in her works are worthy digesting forever.