Mr. Ramsay, Robert Falcon Scott, and heroic death.(Essay)

From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: December 1, 2007| Author: Booth, Allyson | Copyright information

This essay charts Mr. Ramsay's development as a character in To the Lighthouse by placing his journey in the historical context of Robert Falcon Scott's fatal expedition to the South Pole and in the literary contexts of the works Mr. Ramsay reads and recites to himself throughout the novel.

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In Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Mr. Ramsay imagines human intellectual endeavour as an alphabetical path along which one must tread, in order, from A to ...

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