The mind and times of Virginia Woolf – a documentary.

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The mind and times of Virginia Woolf – a documentary.

After watching some extracts from the documentary, answer the following questions:

Right or wrong ? correct when necessary.

1)Her biographer starts by explaining that Virginia Woolf suffered all her life from physical pains and could only find comfort in sleep.

Answer: yes. Virginia Woolf suffered from depression and bipolar disorder.

2) When Virginia Woolf thought it was time to start writing her memoirs, she wrote that she could remember colours and sounds from her childhood, but not many people.

Correction: Yes, she wrote that she could remember colours and sounds from her childhood, but many paint color, many distict side some human beings are coming.

3)Fortunately she was born after the Victorian era and she did not have to suffer from the restraints associated with that time.

Correction: wrong, she was born ending the Victorian era that's why she was suffer from the restraints associated with that time.

4)Virginia Woolf always complained about the unfair treatment of women in British society because they were mistreated by their husbands.

Correction: Right.

5) Virginia Woolf went to university at the turn of the century.

Correction: right. 

6)Virginia Woolf lost her mother at an early age and that marked the beginning of her mental illness because she could not get a grip on reality.

Correction: yes, her mother at an early age and that marked the beginning of her mental illness because she could not get a grip on reality.

Multiple-choice questions:

There is a scene in the novel entitled Mrs Dalloway that can be said to be biographical:

★When the main character is getting ready for the party and looking at herself in the mirror, thinks "this is my life!"

When the main character imagines holding her life in front of her like a baby and walking towards her parents, says "this is my life!"

When the main character is taking care of her baby, looking and smiling at him, and thinks "this is my life!"

ANSWER:

When the    main    character imagines holding her life in  front of her like  a baby and   walking towards her    parents, says “this is my life!”

Fill in the gaps:

The Stephen family moved to victorian house in Hyde Park gate to Bloomsbury in 1904. This area in central London was then considered as a place where note to be good place to live. Their house soon became a meeting point for artists, writers, intellectuals who were all Toby's Friend from Cambridge university. Their main objective was to discuss and the nature of good, they were very aware that Victorian had placed a great deal of attention on public life and they tried to investigate on personal lives or private lives.On the understanding that only if intellectual honesty does not at hand could you hope to  achieve it in the public sphere. and in the process they had to do without the conventions of the times. Virginia Woolf herself wrote that everything was new, everything was on trial, they only wanted to experiment and activity of reform artistic activities. This enterprise was judged as very bold.

Two prominent members of her family then died, which left her very in depression.

This Correct the mistakes:

Virginia Stephens got married to Leonard Woolf in 1912. This event triggered off even more mental breakdowns on Virginia's part. When she was institutionalised, she started writing because she was provided with pen and paper. She underwent a total transformation at these moments, becoming cruel to the people she loved most. Virginia published her first novel in 1915, when she was 21. It is entitled Voyage Inside A Mind and deals with her childhood and the loss of her mother.

Fill in the gaps:

In her novels, she rarely attempted to describe people's relationships, but rather what they did not say to each other, what was in their minds. This has come to be known as the stream of consciousness whichi is described in the documentary as "the body language without the body".

Thank you.