A Room with a View and a Room of One’s Own: Similarities in Anti-Victorian Themes

In course session A room with a View and A Room of one and only(a)s Own I find that the two novels show similarities in their anti-Victorian themes. The conformity of the Victorian era is a concept of the past in these novels both plots showcase a womans growth mentally and emotionally. In Victorian times women thinking freely or having goals was frowned upon, reservation any form of female growth go completely against the brain. feminist themes and ideas ar brought up doneout the text.The main characters of the two novels depict the other(a) signs of the new woman. In A Room with a View Lucy goes by dint of a maturation process where she finds her passionate qualities that have been repressed her social unit biography. The following morning she realizes that It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to lax the eyes upon a bright bare room with a variegated ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a timbre of yellow violins and bassoons. Lucys poetic voice shows the reader that she is in stress with nature. George opens her mind to the concept of art for art sake, by teaching her to however appreciate the everyday nuances of life. The text shows Lucys journey from macrocosm increase to conform to becoming a free spirit ready to present on life and nature with a new zest.A Room of Ones Own shows the growth of a woman by depicting her climb from social futility. There is a theme of discrimination, through the denial of wealth to women throughout the book. When the narrator goes to the college dinner she notes that the women eat a very plain and dull dinner while the men are served a rich and sumptuous lunch. Women were treated like second-class citizens this leads her to loathe the poverty of her sex.Her mentality is soon changed upon receiving her inheritance. Instead of living a life where only a few odd jobs were available to women or being a housewife, she is free to pursue the life she wants. This separates her from most wome n who at that time, were worry with either a low paying job or a family. She now has time to think. One cannot think well or dine well without money. Her view on life completely changes I contain not hate any man he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man he has cipher to give me. She has achieved independence not common to women of the time.