There is a theme in the first chapter that suggests that women are oppressed by men. This is shown threw the rule that women cannot walk on the grass and also, how the Beadle walking toward the narrator, was the reason why the narrator lost her idea that she was “fishing” for. Also when she goes to the library to view a manuscript she cannot enter without a man of the college accompanying her. While she is searching through literature on woman studies she realizes that all of the authors are men.
To write about a subject like women or men there are always two sides. What the men see and what the women see. Both side will be bias and this biases contain a view that the other would not one hundred percent agree with. Also, depending on what you are looking for in a text depends on what sexed author you should read. Woolf shows a how mans view of the world can depress a woman’s will to create and be imaginative through the texts and the authors that she views and her experiences at Oxbridge. This is what supports her thesis, “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Women need their own space away from the oppressed views that men have placed in societies eye.
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There really are two sides to this argument. The section about the library was amusing. The fact that she could not enter without a man was astounding to me, though I suppose I could understand the thoughts of those who made such a rule. Then, having all the books about women studies authored by men is humourous as there are no women writers that could have any sort of rebuttal published. Had the male authors of those books be somehow out of line completely, any woman who wanted to write a book that told a different story about that subject, would have a hard time getting published.
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