Gender and Genre Affairs
Introduction
The phrase “Conventionality of the other sex” is synonymous with Woolf’s “Women and Fiction”; it describes the pressure encountered by female authors placed by their male counterparts. Woolf seems constrained not by her own free will but by the fact that she is under someone else grip (Woolf, 1945). A more in-depth insight into this literary exaction is discussed in detail below.
The soliloquy in the “Angel in the house” is a compelling description of how women use patriarchal desires. Woolf describes how she wrote literary criticism on a book written by a man during which an angel appears and offers her submissive advice she out to do to a man. “Be sympathetic, be tender, flatter, deceive use all the arts and wiles of our sex… ” This distinct strategy summarizes what Woolf believes is placed in every woman, and this is the reason why she insists on that the angel must be killed to prevent women from exploiting their sex, and that’s why she writes of women as women have never been written for in the past. Her liberation of this age-long predicament is seen when she sees her writing as a form of financial independence, and she can buy whatever she wants s in this case, she buys a Persian cat.
Conclusion
Although Woolf’s literature has received lots of critics, although the years she has spearheaded the fight of women’s rights in her society, through her literature and her poetic prowess, she was able to empower women in her community that was men chauvinist. She struggled with her formal education breaking all rules and going to his father’s library. This shows the prowess of literature.
Reference
Woolf, V. (1942). The profession of Women. Women And Fiction, 1345, 1349. Retrieved 8 June 2020,