Professions for Women: Fishbowl Question 11 R & S

By the time of this speech, Woolf's extended essay A Room of One's Own was well known as a feminist manifesto: Woolf claimed that every woman requires a separate income and a room of her own if she is to become an independent, productive woman. How does Woolf embellish this metaphor of a room of one's own in paragraph 7? What is the effect?

Professions for Women: Fishbowl Question 10 R & S

Would you characterize the language at the end of paragraph 5, where Woolf writes about "the body," to be delicate and genteel or euphemistic? Explain, keeping in mind the historical context of the work.

Professions for Women: Fishbowl Question 8 R & S

What is the effect in paragraph 5 of Woolf's referring to a novelist as he? Should Woolf have used she as though she were referring to herslef? Why or why not?

Professions for Women: Fishbowl Question 5 R & S

Discuss the effect of the short simple sentences that Woolf uses in paragraph 3. How do they contribute to her tone as she describes the Angel in the House?

Professions for Women: Fishbowl Question 2 R & S

Identify an example in the opening paragraph of each of the following, and explain its effect:

• understatement
• parallel structure
• rhetorical question
• irony
• metonymy
  

Professions for Women: Fishbowl Question 6

In paragraphs 5 and 6, Woolf explores the consequences of being unable to tell "the truth" about her own "experiences as a body." What does she mean? Why does she believe that surmounting this obstacle is more difficult--perhaps impossible at the time she was writing--than "killing the Angel in the House"?

Professions for Women: Fishbowl Question 2

What is the origin of the Angel in the House (para. 3)? Consult this site for background information. Why is this an appropriate or effective frame of reference for Woolf?