The Problem of Life, Literature and Art

MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: normal">Was such a merger possible? Is it an expression of a moment of the memory of the relationship: mother-child from the womb, which continues after birth and is gradually broken only at puberty? This relationship was not gradually but abruptly severed when thirteen-year-old Virginia's mother died. Because apart from falling in love, the hug most strongly affects the desire for the opportunity to touch her mother. Mrs. Ramsay is an atypical Englishwoman with aristocratic southern roots who is rumored to have had a suicidal fiancé or husband (like Rhetia's husband Septimus from Mrs. Dalloway), so the embrace between Lilly and Mrs. Ramsay could be seen simply as a hug between close people with a southern (warmer) character and nothing more. The reference to the jumped vessels (a motif from the conversation between Agathon and Socrates in Plato's "Pyrrhus") and other moments from "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Orlando" give a new tone, imbue from the embrace between Lilly and Mrs. Ramsay with another meaning - a sign of love between women. It all depends on the purpose of the researcher. And as for Virginia Woolf's way of writing, it is always passively provocative – “It may be so, but it may not be so. Ha, guess!”.

 

     The hug from "To The Lighthouse" is key from a psychological point of view - a silent moment, meaningfully saturated as a sign - signifying three different types of closeness: between mother and child; between close people and between women in a love relationship. What would such a moment of flowing thought and silent embrace through Saussure's theory of language look like? Mrs. Ramsay's knees are the link and barrier between her and Lilly—a barrier and link, as the leaf on which V. Woolf writes and the text of Plato, as the umbilical cord, as the connection between the connected vessels. In itself, this moment cannot be interpreted directly in any direction, without bearing in mind that through Mrs. Ramsay the author's mother is implied, and the mother in general, i.e. the relationship: mother-child. This node expresses the synthesized search for answers to various questions and situations. The view from the side, the distance of the creator suggests that the biographical in this novel is not the only framework through which it should be read and explored. Moments of empathy show that what appears to be largely refracted through the biographical may in fact simply refer to answers to questions the author has asked herself about people not described and not hinted at in the novel. Reading through the biographical is possible thanks to the letters, diaries and other statements of V. Woolf, but it is proper for the researcher to show a certain distance and skepticism t