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Read Chapter 3 of “A Room of One’s Own” (pp. 2264-2272 on Norton ) and answer
the following questions:
1. What does the narrator discover about women in fiction and women in fact?
Women in fiction is described as people who are not the most important. They are not
as good as men. Women in fact are being oppressed.
2. What does the narrator challenge the audience at Newnham or Girton to do?
Woolf offered her opinions and she wanted her audience to join her discussion and
think for their own answers.
3. What does the narrator find “deplorable, looking about the bookshelves again”?
The narrator finds it deplorable that nearly nothing is known about women in the
history.
4. According to the narrator, why would it have been “impossible, completely and
entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of
Shakespeare”?
Women at that time is supposed to get married and be good wives, not receiving
education or writing. They didn’t have money and they are controlled by men. Therefore,
there’s no way for women to express themselves, and let alone writing plays.
5. Who is Judith Shakespeare?
Judith Shakespeare is set as William Shakespeare’s sister, a fictional character
created by Woolf to express her thoughts that women wouldn’t have had the same
opportunity to fulfill themselves as men do back in the days.
6. What does Judith Shakespeare’s life illustrate?
Judith Shakespeare’s life shows that women, though with the same talent as men
does, would not have the same success comparing with men because of the social
structure and the way people treat women.