The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf
- Killer idea: Onions! Layers! Existentialism! We prejudge her based on societal illusions and our own false reality.
Key theories: existentialism, feminism, enigma
2. Explore how the exterior is portrayed and how the interior is portrayed – how does this differ from traditional narratives? - What is being said about imagination and about the way we perceive things?
- Why the use of very long paragraphs?
- In what way does the looking glass reflect the writer and the writer’s craft?
- How is the woman portrayed? Trappings of life but she is absent – why?