When I started reading Chapter 4 on Virginia Woolf’s famous essay "A room of one’s own", I did not know I was going to be reading one of the most interesting and intelligent pieces of work related to the role of women in both literature and society. She did an excellent job on coming up ideas about the women’s literary history, stating that women are intelligent as men and that they have been controlled by them in the way they think and write.
According to her, women always wanted to express themselves as human beings and citizens they are and also they wanted to demonstrate that they deserve the same treatment and the same rights. Women just wanted to stop being discriminated by men and have an space on society in order to participate actively in all the events that have impact on their lives, they wanted to have jobs, study and have a better life . At the same time, through writing they wanted to show they were capable of creating different and original novels in which they can express their thoughts and criticize the powerful domination that men had on their lives.
In the years this essay was written, it started to occur one of the most significant changes in society. It was the possibility that women have the right to suffrage and therefore, start to have opinion and force in men’s reality.
I personally think this essay is very contemporary to our reality because although we have advanced as society in including women as equals, we have still not changed in some aspects. For example, in terms of jobs the salary that men earn is a lot more than women, or the fact that we have a female president is still not totally accepted by some and for men is easier to attack her because of her faults but when we had a male president it was a very different story.
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