Virginia's need to be in everyone who flutters like butterflies circled around Mrs. Ramsay is an expression of her desire to receive multiplied care that Mrs. Ramsay gives to each of them. And so, by dispersing it seems to be easier, so that she does not feel guilty, maybe that she is robbing someone or something, but also to keep the distance that is so necessary for the novel, and probably for consciousness. Distance suggesting the difficulty of calling someone or something your own. Therefore, Mrs. Ramsay remains Mrs. Ramsay, separated by the invisible furrow of distance, and not "my mother," "my mother," as Virginia probably longed to call her. This border is probably the reason why what M. Nikolchina describes as a bisecting of the word "Mother" from the Ur-pause also happened in the description of a moth (Moth-er) in "An Unwritten Novel", which is something as a project of "To The Lighthouse"[xv]. Crossing the line beyond with the help of time with which she titles Part Two of the novel, V. Woolf maintains distance through Lilly, who reaches Farrah through Mrs. Ramsay's relatives. Mrs. Ramsay's relatives are metaphors through which Lilly-Virginia reaches closer and painlessly to the mother. But in the final, the aspiration is not just for Mrs. Ramsay, but for Lighthouse, who, in addition to being a symbol of light and seemingly achieved peace, has a phallic form and suggests that V. Woolf did not just aspire to her mother, but to the mother, which I will protect her as a surrogate father. The lack of paternal closeness and protection has displaced the need and demand for affection and attention to the mother. That is why the figure of not just the mother, but the archaic mother is a major sign-symbol achieved through various allusions in the novel.
"To Тhe Lighthouse" can be seen metaphorically as poetry, symphony and scientific experiment. As poetry - because the unfolding of the plot is symmetrically arranged by alternating and closing frames around a center in the middle, represented by various metaphors - a tunnel, a labyrinth, an abyss, the inside of a cocoon, of a sock, etc. In a poetic aspect, this abyss can mean not a connection or a barrier, but a missing verse - a whole, a consecutive link. It is this abyss that is the most poetic part of the work. There, through metaphors, language has merged with the elements and peace. There are the static picture of
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