Hw 30: a room of my own
Woolf states that “It is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry” (pg.105). I feel that I do not always have a room to my self. I live in a college dorm room so there not much alone time. Woolf also says that “There must be freedom and there must be peace” (pg.104). Living with two other people there is never any alone time where I can think. Woolf says that women through out history were not able to do the things we can do now, and that is why she puts so much stress on making sure women have a room of their own so they can take advantage of what we are aloud to do. “I had come at last, in the course of this rambling, to the shelves which old books by the living; by women and by men; for there are almost as many books written by women now as by men” (pg.79). As time goes on, Woolf tells us that women are growing, and they are more appreciated for the things they have done since the beginning of the book. She also says, “Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves” (pg. 108). Woolf is trying to say that women were never good enough to have such intellect and to be noticed for it is such a big thing, so it is important for women to have a space of their own so they can concentrate we can be listened by all, which I feel that I do not have a room to my own in which I can do so.
