Virginia Woolf

The work of Virginia Woolf in “Shakespeare’s Sister,” was fascinating to read, because of Woolf’s creative and thoughtful ideas. In an excerpt from the novel, A Room of One’s Own, Woolf creates a character, Judith Shakespeare, and writes about what her opportunities, or lack thereof, would have been, had she existed. Shakespeare’s sister would clearly have lived her entire life in the shadow of her renowned brother. Shakespeare’s equally talented sister may have produced greater, more timeless pieces of literature than her brother. “Judith Shakespeare” would never have had the opportunity to embrace her strengths and to express her views of the world, through writing and performing. Women, being considered unequal to men during that time period, were forced to succumb to the demands and strictures placed upon them, by society.
After reading the work of Virginia Woolf and Mary Wollstonecraft, it has become even more difficult for me to imagine living during a time, when women were not considered equal to men. Being treated as an inferior race, based on outrageous male superiority, is something that no woman should ever have had to experience. Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf were obviously, extremely intelligent women, forced to live in a time when women were not allowed to have goals and desires. As women, living in today’s more equal world, we must remember the women who fought tirelessly to bring justice to women all over the world. This reading was very remarkable. Virginia Woolf’s writing was very fascinating to read, and a very important literary text.