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Term Paper Title	: Cherubic Demons
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: Cherubic Demons
Virginia Woolf was a professional writer who made many important contributions to the progress of women and
women’s rights. She was born in 1882 during a time -- the middle of the Victorian era -- in which the feminine ideal
that she struggled against so much was very prevalent; the ideal women was thought to be passive, pretty, and
proper. “The Angel in the House” was Woolf’s term for the internalized ideal against which she strove to overcome.
Her father was a writer too; he was an editor and a critic both in profession and parenthood. Woolf suffered
continual loss and tragedy in the course of her childhood and adult life. While still a young girl, she was abused
sexually by her half-brothers, and when she tried to tell people about the trauma she endured, no one believed her.
Her mother, who continually neglected Woolf while she was alive, died when Woolf was only thirteen years old. As
she grew older, Woolf valiantly tried to overcome all of the pain she had endur!
ed and the internal fear that seemed to pervade her every thought and action. Whether she eventually did overcome
these practically insurmountable obstacles is uncertain; Virginia Woolf killed herself by drowning at the age of 57.
Regardless of how her life circumstances affected or even benefited her writing, Woolf offered women in general
some very important truths, and challenged women for generations to come with her honesty, frankness, and
courage. Virginia Woolf is a prime example of how, throughout the ages, women are constantly faced with living up
to not only men’s opinion of them, but women’s as well, and must overcome their lofty expectations in addition to
their own life experiences.
One the many ghost’s that haunted Woolf throughout her life was “The Angel in the House”. Woolf describes this
disturbing phantom in her essay, “Professions for Woman”. The Angel in the House is a spiritual being that resides
in every woman. Whether she obeys it or not is up to her, but that does not change that fact that the spirit is there,
admonishing them to act in a way that pleases not only the Angel, but also the people around her. The Angel
represents all that the woman is expected by society -- or men -- to be. In Woolf’s generation, the Angel symbolizes
what the Victorian epitome of womanhood is. She can please, she can flatter, she can soothe, she is self-less, she is
beautiful, she is “above all, pure”. In the time that Woolf lives, the standards t...

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