Throughout the course we have read many novels and articles providing different ideas. “A Room of One’s Own” and “The things that Carried” are two strong novels that establish the unexpected accomplishments of women and men who put themselves in risks to succeed in life. In this essay I will show that a person must take control of an unpleasant situation in their life with courage in order to succeed in what you want. By doing so, I will use Virgina Woolf shows the aspects of women and Tim O’ Brian viewing men to establish that even though both authors are viewing to different settings. They both deal with women and men having to be brave and pushing them through times where they are forced to succeed.
From reading the novel Woolf gives the…show more content… Therefore, Woolf ideal of a woman should have her own room have been created by using other authors to make her points. Women are to overcome the reaction of society and to push themselves to do what they want to become successful. Throughout the novel Woolf is using different scenery’s through colleges to illustrate the college lives of men. Even though that she went to all men's college I think that Woolf is trying to paint a picture for women to push themselves to the nice fancy college as men. In addition, Woolf uses Shakespeare successes to pointing out that women must have a room of their own to accomplish their goal. Woolf analysis’s the successful work of Shakespeare by making up a female Shakespeare, who has the same talent as his sister, success. “It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any women to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare” (Woolf,). Woolf has already shown her readers that the importance of money is a massive substance that can create an open door for women to create space for themselves. As a result, women could success in the world just as men. Here, Woolf is showing us that women are less capable than men. Woolf is also showing a man and women with the same exact talent, but the man over shines the women. Using this Shakespeare example shows us that the door for women becoming successful writers was not a choice. Men pushed themselves to ever shine themselves. I…show more content… “By telling stories, you objectify your experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin it down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the right in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur, but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain” (O’Brian, 158). This quote means that men have the courage to go into war and they use different things to help them cope through this process. Storytelling helps to tell their experiences with adding and taking out events to cope with traumatic experiences to support the