Woolf’s first novel , The Voyage Out , is an exploration of a young woman , namely , Rachel Vinrace, who has received no formal education , has been brought up at home in a manner which does not prepare her for any sort of independent adult life. Rachel is intensely conscious of her lack of formal education, her powerlessness in society, and her exclusion from the male-dominated world of governance and decision-making. Her one consolation is that she has been left undisturbed to develop her artistic flair for piano-playing.
Despite all the symbolism of a first journey away from home, a first love affair, and the dawning of mature consciousness which Rachel experiences, the bulk of the novel is taken up with what people say and think about each other. This was a bold alternative to the plot-driven novels of the late Victorian era. Grab an e copy of the title that marks Woolf’s beginning as one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and prolific writers at Mediahitt.
The novel’s main subject is a young woman’s ‘coming of age’. The narrative follows a linear chronology, check it out at Mediahitt. Woolf uses a combination of a reasonably objective third person narrative mode with passages in which the point of view switches from one character to another. She does this in order to explore three separate issues which she developed even further in her later novels.
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