Woolf In Gender Relations

?This paper tries to explore the sexual relationship in Virginia Woolf's novels. The aim is to find out Woolf's sex consciousness and its effects.This paper consists of three chapters. The first chapter shows the theme and motivation of this paper. It reviews the present academic research and points out that there are still many questions yet to be raised on the sexual relationship in the Virginia Woolf's works. Therefore, this article, based on the present researches, tries to explore the sex consciousness further of Woolf. The second chapter analyses the alienated relationship between the male and the female, exploring the sex relationship structures in the works of Woolf. Every single person in her novel is powerless, male or female. The relationship between man and women is alienated, in which condition, the sex is distorted, or dead, worse still. But the homosexual relationship is treated with lots of attention; the traditional sexual relationship is questioned. In Woolf's view, the perfect pattern of sexual identity for human kind is androgyny. In the novel Orlando, people have dual sex identity; he or she can change sex willfully. In the novel The Waves, six people are combined in one; human and nature are harmonious in the world. Through this kind of strategy, Woolf demonstrated her ideal of sexual relationship. The third chapter discusses the meaning of the writer who thinks of much about both sexes; it's the conclusion of this article. This chapter analyses the meaning of studying the sex relationship from the perspective of literature and social effect. It wishes that the writings focusing on the topic of male sex and female sex may get rid of the simple hostile emotion on sex and increase the dialogue and communication between both sexes. This paper also wishes to change, to some extent, the readers'view on sexual relationship and to improve the relationship between male and female in reality, by doing so, both sexes may coexist harmoniously through the new and harmonious sexual relationship revealed by the literature.