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How to be a woman

_movie review from The Hours

When I watched the movie The Hours, I was indulging in the recollection of reading several books about feminism one year ago, when I was very curious about the relationship between men and women and also puzzled by my self-positioning in the society. I can’t stop considering about my life plans and how to make my life meaningful as I am a woman.

I had not supposed that the movie is too obscure to appreciate until I surfed some reviews about it. Actually it tells a story of three women in different eras, who however are closely linked by a book. Then I will discuss it from the following aspects.

Progressive process of feminism

The book Mrs. Dalloway which written by Virginia Woolf who was a writer in 1920’s has joined the three women in different times together. And the proceeding of women’s sel f-awareness in the last century was exhibited to us in the movie. In the 1923, Virginia Woolf was building her conception of the novel Mrs. Dalloway, which was not to the taste of people who were in Victorian Age. All the day she was in a trance as if she was living in two worlds. She seems unhappy although she was taken every care by her husband. As we know, a woman like talented writer Virginia Woolf in such area was always restricted by social system even though she has many ambitions and passions. So she had to attach her feelings to her creation of novels. At first, it’s hard for me to understand why she radically chose to die to escape the bitter in life. Then not until now do I truly realize that I’m living in an area, when I at least have much more chances to be myself than she does.

Then in 1951 when America was in the economic recoveries after the War Two, many man came back from the war needed more jobs and then women was advocated to return home. So it’s no wonder for Lara to console herself by sa ying that”they came from the war; they deserve it, didn’t they?” However Mrs. Dalloway had kindled her inert sensitive spirit. Actually it is over all easy for me to feel Lara’s choice to leave her family. There must be someone in the society who was anxious about mediocre

life, from which she wanted more than being a house wife and from which she saw no self-values advocated by some people at that time. Lara is just like the Virginia, who was inclined to obey her nature so at last she appeared little regret and hatred when her family died ahead of her. I once felt confused that didn’t she have a better and wiser way to solve her matter? Then I knew that in 1950’s, It’s relatively luckier for women to get rid of unbalanced and unfair life if she was brave enough to shoulder many burdens such as the guilty of abandoning her children. At least it’s luckier for her than Virginia who obtained understandings by dying. Wasn’t it much more progressive at that time than that before thirty years ago.

At last, I found that more females played critical part of the society in the beginning of 21th century. Females just like Clarissa who was Mrs. Dalloway in 21st century, can chose her occupations, companions and family freely and she need males who were not most important any more in their lives. I think it is a sort of more mature feminism, which enlightened us after a dozen years later and made me think how to be a woman without anxiety of unworthiness.

How to bravely confront our life

From the line”you cannot find peace by avoiding life” in Virginia’s book and the echo at the end of movie “to look life in the face ”, we seem obvious to know how to confront our life.

Firstly we should be sensitive about life. No matter Virginia, Lara or Clarissa, their unceasing consideration about the meaning of life as a woman makes them the pioneer of a period of time even though they were living a what was call happy life with love and economic support. It’s indeed courageous of one to b roke it and also insightful of one to pierce any tiny problems.

Then, our certain value needs being recognized by society if we aspire for true freedom and absolute independence. When we finally change into a mother or a wife in a family from an independent and aspiring single woman, we should always keep our spiritual freedom. Only when we fully know ourselves, can we develop our interests. It is true that we were educated to have the same dreams and futures with boys, however, when we grew up, we became unconfident to feel inferior to female.