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HW 30:

I don’t know if I exactly have “A room of my own”. But I do have my own bedroom where I can go and no one will really bother me there, other than back home, I don’t think I have much privacy, especially at college. Woolf believes that every woman should have a room of their own to experience their own minds, to let themselves think and be able to study and learn by themselves. I think that this is a great vision, but I honestly don’t think too many woman in our society today have enough time to find a room that is completely and totally quiet, and not be bothered for a long period of time. I think that because our society is so fast pace, women have less and less time to “be alone”, its not that we don’t want to, but its just it is harder and harder to find, which I think Woolf would be very disappointed about, yet she would be happy that women in fact now have every right to be who they want to be, and they don’t have to hide their intelligence. Woolf would be very happy with the improvement of women in the society, in chapter 5 she says, “I had come at last, in the course of this rambling, to the shelves which hold books by the living; by women and by men; for there are almost as many books written by women now as by men” (Woolf, 79). This quote shows that even in her time period things were changing drastically for women, and I think if she were alive today she would definitely be shocked at how much it has changed from even then. In Chapter 6 she kind of talks about male authors and concepts, she says, “It is not only that they celebrate male virtues, enforce male values and describe the world of men; it is that the emotion with which these books are permeated is to a woman incomprehensible” (Woolf, 102). I think she basically thinks that males have taken over for the most part, and they’re writings focus on mostly male concepts, so women are left out. I think that even if not every women has a “room of their own” today, that Woolf would still be happy because there has been such a drastic change in how women are portrayed, and I think she would be shocked as to how much more respect women have, and can finally show their true intellect.