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HW30 Have I Got a Room of My Own?
By pianofanatic | March 24, 2008
Have I got a room of my own? After reading chapters five and six of “A Room of One’s Own,” I have contemplated the idea of having a room of one’s own. I thought the subject matter of both chapters was great. The modernity of more voices for women and more options for true love other than finding the perfect guy, rather finding the perfect someone whether it be male or female. But then without the interaction between men and men, men and women and women and women there would be fewer, much fewer works of art, plays, and stories. In the following passage it describes how barren the world would be if not for men and women together, thus how important the roles women and men play equally and how one cannot do without the other.
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Anthony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques— literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women” (Woolf 87).
I do think I have a room of my own. I have privilege to think as I want and do as I want to. I have an education and future and together those things are the key tools for a wide-open room of my own.
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