The Fusion of Contradictory Realities in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927)

Komal Chandila

doi:10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i05.1653

The Fusion of Contradictory Realities in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927)

Author(s)	Ms. Komal Chandila
Country	India
Abstract	This study examines Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece To the Lighthouse(1927) from the perspective of her unique vision of reality. Reality, for Virginia Woolf, is composed of multiplicity, of ‘the incessant shower of the atoms’ that makes up a multifaceted phenomenon. This vision of reality has been applied to the issue of how this reality is reflected in spatial terms. Virginia Woolf tries to find reality in a paradoxical way that the underlying principle in chaos is order. Human life does not move on a plain and linear way. Its very basis is formed on the combination of past, present and future. In this study the researcher has tried to prove that Virginia Woolf’s concept of reality arises out of her private experience that defies any empirical analysis. She does not follow any particular theory but rather assimilates all. Approach to the subject is character-centred rather than author-centred. Apart from introduction and literature review, the topic is subdivided into four chapters. In each chapter excerpts from the novel as well as Virginia Woolf’s writings have been included to clarify her notion of reality and the key concept of the ‘moments of being’. This thesis is cyclic as it begins and ends with Woolf’s unique vision of reality and how it is visualized in the novel. Conclusions drawn from the study are that To the Lighthouse (1927) reflects Virginia Woolf’s representation of reality, not only from the traditional notion but from other contemporary modern novels. It is this inquiry into the nature of reality which makes an original contribution to the body of literature which places her among modern writers and philosophers
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On	2025-10-28
DOI	https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i05.1653
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g99qn8

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