The Subjectivity Writing In To The Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf is an outstanding female modernist writer in the history of English Literature. Her daring and creative subjectivity writing makes her extraordinary in the literary circle.As an innovative novelist, Woolf has a strong sense of subjectivity; her writings are infused with personal characteristics. She establishes a series of unique literary theories of her own for fictional creation, and tries to make use of them in her own novel writing. She reaches the peak of perfection in employing the narrative technique — the stream of consciousness to reveal the inner truth in characters' mind, and furthermore, she is good at applying other narrative methods that are helpful for the discovery of the inner reality and searching for the significance of life, such as the treatment of psychological time and narration of the psychological silence. All these experimentations are carried on creatively with the aim of describing the intricate and anfractuous mind and psychic sphere for the ultimate truth of life and human nature. Through subjectivity writing, Woolf's novels have gained their special features, one of which I have to mention is the poetic attribute. It is also an aesthetic effect that is produced eventually by her superb subjectivity writing.This thesis is devoted to the research on To the Lighthouse, which is commonly recognized as Woolf s most creative and matured novel. The thesis discusses in detail Woolf s subjective writing in this novel. It is divided into six parts with an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion. The Introduction puts forward the argument of the thesis after sketching the background of Woolf s novel writing and her writing process. Chapter One focuses on subjectivity and psychoanalysis for the clearance of different conceptions. Chapter Two and Three exhibit...