'Woolf & Baym\r'

'Virginia Woolf takes into consideration the necessary conditions mandatory for the creation of a literary work. She considers the schooling as the first pre-requisite for this purpose. Shakespeare’s sister is a grammatical construction of that aggravation that women writers felt all over the passage of cartridge holder over the issue of lack of equal opportunities for women in the literary domain. In this way she contemplates over the socio-historical reason for the inability of egg-producing(prenominal) writers to create a mellow quality work.She looks at the feminine historical follow up and relates it with her thesis. She poses a historical questions why great women writers were get rid of from the literary literalm in the early biography of English literature and why there no Shakespeare and/or Chaucer; â€Å"Why no muliebrity wrote a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or sonnet. ” (p. 363) Her d ismay over the absence of any effeminate literary colossus turns into anger and gloominess when she learns about the pathos and miseries of fe priapic life.Although she tries to bet for any available evidence on Shakespeare’s sister but lack of check-out procedure compel her employ her imaginary and fictional faculties in relating the predicaments of Shakespeares sister. Woolfs theory postulates that â€Å"For booster like Shakespeares is not natural among labouring, uneducated, servile people” because she is of the collect that literary genius is a production leisure class activity. She farther thinks that financial independence nurtures freedom of thought and deed and this elevated flight of imagination can but cause a work of the calibre of Shakespeare.Women of that fourth dimension were not free from these obstacles, so were unable to produce a great literary piece. There was female talents and genius but they wasted their talent in making money. †Å"Hundreds of women began as the eighteenth deoxycytidine monophosphate drew on to add to their pin money, or to come to the rescue of their families by making translations or writing the innumerable bad novels”(366) That is the reason that â€Å"She died upstart †alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. ” (367)Baym has evaluated the American literary landscape and has tried to search for the reasons for â€Å"the critical invisibility of the many active women authors in America. ” Nina Baym considers the similar question about the plight of women writers in American history as Woolf described. But her spatial relation toward the topic is not literary but alternatively feminist. She says that women writer â€Å"has entered the literary history as the enemy. ” (593). steady the serious critics cast doubt about the female writings. She further elaborated her point of view and ques tioned the female presentation in the American literature by the male writer.She described three form of male suppression that is manifested subtly in literature. Firstly, a woman is equalized with nature or landscape instead of her real life-like portrayal. She considers it a form of subjugation done by the conscious omission of real female characters. Secondly, she is of the view that women has been presented as an epitome of â€Å"entrappers” or â€Å"domesticators”. She considers this misrepresentation and strain of female character as a monstrance of male suppression. She draws upon various literary sources and texts to support her arguments and to add up at her conclusions.\r\n'