The main contents of Woolf's A Room of One's Own are as follows:
This book consists of A Room of One's Own and How to Read a Book? "Two lecture notes, covering the difficulties faced by women in many fields such as economy, occupation and fertility, reviewing the status of women at that time and putting forward expectations for women.
The whole discussion is like a lively and interesting brainstorming case class. Her famous saying: "If a woman wants to write a novel, she must have money and a room of her own." In the book, she explained that she started with the topic of women and novels, and the whole process of thinking behind the famous saying was presented to readers one by one.
Creation is inherently difficult, and you need to confront yourself, people around you, trivial matters of life and social needs. It is even more difficult for women to do this. It used to be caused by gender discrimination, but it seems that it is still not easy to equal rights now. Why? In today's society, men can specialize, and if they succeed in one aspect, they can ignore other aspects. And girls seem to need to be all-round, to be economically independent, to take care of their families, to be beautiful and smooth, and to be mentally free.
Money gives women the capital to look up at the starry sky, while their own room can be isolated from trivial matters, with sufficient time and free space to explore themselves and create quietly. For every girl, being herself is more important than anything. I prefer to call it "Woolf" than the popular translation. Because the former is like a woman and the latter is like a man. The name
neutralizes her gender attribute. Just like Coleridge's famous saying she advocated in this article: "A good writer should be hermaphrodite."
Woolf must be a good writer, the best kind. Reading her books is like a spring breeze. Words and sentences are like flowing water, and the metaphor is appropriate. For example, the cameras are equipped with lenses with different focal lengths, and sometimes a close-up deepens the aesthetic feeling of the object itself. Sometimes a big scene plays up the atmosphere and scenes created by things and people, and sometimes the lens is slowly pushed, so that the relationship between people and things is slowly shaken out, and the mood under the calm appearance of the characters is unobstructed.
Frowning, corners of the mouth rising, even the opening and closing of pores and the trend of heart flow are all captured one by one, and sometimes the tripod is changed to a new position, providing readers with some new thinking angles, associative collisions and consciousness trends. Woolf is such a writer. The more you read her, the more you love her. Her writing is smart and energetic, and her idea of equal rights transcends the limitations of the times. The full text is full of British irony.
The book uses six chapters to tell us that we should believe in ourselves and persist in being ourselves. Even if it is bumpy and tortuous, we must persist.