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"Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf

SOAPS

Stylistic Notes

What is the purpose of the third person narrative?

- Makes the audience relate

- Adds drama

- Makes the speech less about her, and more about every woman.

Subject - the obstacles facing professional women

Occasion - (originally) a speech given to the Women's Service League in 1931

- Published in "The Death of the Mother and Other Essays"

Audience - (originally) The Women's Service League

- Anyone reading her essays (especially women)

Purpose - to reflect and identify the problems facing professional women

- To warn/ predict the need for defeating these obstacles

Speaker - Virginia Woolf (feminist, learned woman)

Evidence

Tone Shift

The speech starts off light hearted, but becomes more urgent and serious as the passage goes on.

Woolf uses anecdotal evidence to argue that women still have difficulties in the workplace.

She ties this together by ensuring that it is known that these experiences were not unique to only her.

Rhetorical Devices

Examples

Devices Used

Allusion: "And the Phantom..." (349).

Anaphora: "She was intensely..." (349-352).

"Outwardly,..."(352).

Antithesis: "Outwardly...Inwardly,..." (352).

Aporia: "How are you going..." (353).

Metaphor: "You have won rooms..." (353).

Personification: "Her imagination..." (352).

Allusion

Anaphora

Antithesis

Aporia

Metaphor

Personification

A Brief Summary of the Piece

DIDLS!

In the piece, Woolf discusses the obstacles that are common among women in the workforce

and how they must be stopped.

Diction = Slacks

Connotatations

Tone

Negative Connotation: When talking about the "Angel"

- Tormented

- Killed

- Died

Positive Connotation: When talking about the women

- Younger

-Happier

"Angel in the House" allusion--> signifies the pressure women were under to be the perfect woman

All these aspects lead up to a final tone in the passage that is inspirational, pleading, and almost inflammatory

Syntax

Rhetoric

Diction

Long, polysyllabic sentences, but not necessarily formal.

Imagery:

"And then there..." (352).

Details: She included specific details to make it more easily related to

Language: Informal and often abstract

Syntax: Long to Medium sentences

Declarative/Rhetorical Questions

Message: Women have to work to make themselves permanent and respected professionally

Analysis by Keisha Lozano

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