The Change of Women in Status from Passive to Active Virginia Woolf A Society

Abstract

The present work discusses the change of women’s status from passive to active in Virginia Woolf’s A Society (1921) and women harsh conditions in the Victorian Age. The aim of our research is to demonstrate how Virginia Woolf denounces women’s discrimination and isolation and the way she illustrates how oppression can lead a woman to rebel in order to call for her rights and dignity. The work is divided into three chapters; the first one entitled Historical Background is about the history of British women in the late 19th century and early 20th century and the evolution of their status from being “the Angel in the House” to “the New Woman” who struggles for her independence and autonomy. The second chapter entitled Women Interaction and Rebellion within Society analyses the course of women’s struggle for their rights in Woolf’s A Society. The third chapter entitled Society and Women Revolution between Reality and Fiction is a comparison between women’ emancipation in Victorian society and Woolf’s imaginative society.