Lesson 4 Professions for Women
--Virginia
Woolf
1.Modernism
Modern literary practices. Also, the principles of a literary school that lasted roughly the beginning the 20th century until the end of World War II. Modernism is defined by its rejection of the literary conventions of the nineteenth century and by its opposition to conventional morality, taste, traditions and economic values.
2.Stream of Consciousness
●A psychological term
●Stream of consciousness denotes a literary technique which seeks to describe an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes.
● First used in the late 19th century, employed to evince subjective as well as objective reality. It reveals the character's feelings, thoughts, and actions, often following an associative rather than a logical sequence, without commentary by the author.
●Stream of consciousness is often confused with interior monologue, but
the latter technique works the sensations of the mind into a more formal pattern: a flow of thoughts inwardly expressed, similar to a soliloquy. Representative Writers
The Principles of Psychology --William James.
Ulysses -- James Joyce.
The Sound and the Fury --William Faulkner
Mrs Dalloway--Virginia Woolf.
The Portrait of a Lady--Henry James
3.Structure of Text
Part I (paras.1-2):The beginning part, introducing the topic under discussion.
Part II (para.3):The 1st obstacle to becoming a professional woman writer. Part III (para.4 ):A transitional link between her 1st and 2nd experience Part IV (para.5):Second experience in her professions
Part V (para.6):Sums up the author’s two experiences her of literature.
Part VI (para.7):Cconclusion of her speech
第二篇：professions for women 2
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The Reason why Men have peculiar Right
In her article Profession for Women, Virginia Woolf shows every reader her opinions about the employment of women and men. It is unfair to women that they have no the same treatment as men. The reason why men have peculiar rights is the conventional concept.
We could always see one phenomena that girls are hard to find a good job when they just graduate from school. Usually girls are teachers, waitresses, secretary or cashiers. We hardly see them in factories. Even in big companies the number of males is lager than females. Large number of individuals could not realize why it is, but I think this is formed for a long time. Several years ago, women could have the same job as men. But we all know females should be pregnant and have a baby. So they had to stop their work. In other word, management should find someone to instead the mothers. That was not good for companies to get benefits. After that, managers thought men didn’t have these matters like women. Henceforth men were the good choice for companies. On the other hand, men are stronger than females. So men could do what women couldn’t do, especially the job in bad environment, such as the petro specialist in oil well, the worker in construction plant and the worker in a machine factory. So we could not think the behaviors that managers only choose males are wrong. I just say that is the historical matter.
In conclusion, I don’t think the concept that men have peculiar right is not false. Actually, women certainly are not as suitable as men in every kind of jobs. Certainly, it is not discrimination, just in the consequence of history problem.
(297 words) Oct.28