Chapter One Hundred and Four: A Small Step in the Direction of Light
Woolf lived with her parents in the city of London, near Hyde Park. Her early education was completed by her parents at home.
Her mother died suddenly in 1895, and two years later, her half-sister died, causing the 15-year-old Woolf to suffer several mental breakdowns.
Later, in her autobiography "Moments of Existence", she and her sister Vanessabel were sexually assaulted by their half-brother. After the death of her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, in 1904, she and Vanessa moved to Bloom. Later, they and a few friends founded the Bloomsbury School of Literati.
She began her professional writing career in 1905, initially writing for the Times Literary Supplement.
In 1915, her first novel, The Voyage, was published, and since then she has been loved by critics and readers alike. Most of the works were recommended by the "Hogarth Edition" that he had set up.
Woolf is known as one of the great novelists of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernist literature, although she herself did not like certain modernist authors, such as Joyce.
She has innovated the English language a lot, experimenting with stream-of-consciousness writing methods in her novels, trying to depict the subconscious in people's hearts.
Edward Morgan Foster called her "a small step in the direction of light" in English. Her literary achievements and innovations are still influential today.
Her popularity declined after World War II, but with the rise of feminism in the '70s, she became the focus of the literary world.
Woolf, who suffered from severe depression, wrote to a friend in 1936: "Never believe my letter, don't lie to you. Before I wrote this, I stayed up all night, staring at a bottle of trichloroacetaldehyde, muttering no, no, you can't drink it. 」
On March 28, 1941, after filling her pocket with stones, she committed suicide by throwing herself into the River Ouse, near her home in Rodmell, leaving a suicide note to her husband. Woolf was born and died in the same year as James Joyce, both of whom are representative writers of stream of consciousness.
Most recent research on Woolf has focused on three areas: feminism, homosexual tendencies, and a history of depression. An example of this is a series of literary criticisms by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer in 1997: Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings.
In 1966, Elizabeth Taylor starred in the movie "WhosafraidofVirginiaWoolf?". But the name of this film. But it has nothing to do with Virginia Woolf, instead using a British nursery rhyme called "Whosafraidofthebig, badwolf?"
In 2002. A film based on Woolf's story during the writing of Mrs. Dalloway appeared, TheHours. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. But there was no award.
But the film's main character, Nicole Kidman, won the award for Best Actress. The film is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Cunningham.
The film's name, "The Hours", is the temporary name Woolf gave to Mrs. Dalloway during his creation. However, some scholars who study Woolf are very dissatisfied with Woolf's portrayal in the film.
One of the guardians of the Demon Warrior - Adam Smith
Adam Smith. 1723–1790), also translated as Adam and Smith, Adam and Smith. The Wealth of Nations, the British Scottish philosopher and economist, became the first book to attempt to explain the history of European industry and commerce.
The book developed the modern discipline of economics and provided the theoretical foundations of modern free trade, capitalism, and libertarianism.
Adam Smith was born in Cococa, Varfe, Scotland. When he was about 4 years old, Adam Smith was abducted by a group of gypsies, but was soon rescued by his uncle.
At the age of about 14, Adam Smith entered the University of Glasgow, where he studied moral philosophy under the tutelage of "the eternal" (as Adam Smith called him) Hutchison.
Adam Smith developed his passion for freedom, reason, and freedom of speech during this period.
In 1740 he entered Belliol College, Oxford, but he later said that "his time at Oxford had little influence on his later life's work", and he left Oxford University in 1746.
In 1748 he began lecturing at the University of Edinburgh under the patronage of Henry Home. Initially aimed at rhetoric and pure literature, he began to study the "development of wealth", and by the age of nearly 30 he had for the first time expounded the "clear and simple system of natural freedom" of economic philosophy, which he later incorporated into his book A Study of the Nature and Causes of National Wealth, which he later wrote simply as "The Wealth of Nations."
He met David Hugh around 1750, and the two became close friends. He also got to know some of the people who would later become the driving force behind the Enlightenment movement in Scotland.
Adam Smith's father had a strong interest in Christianity and joined the moderate Scottish Presbyterian Church. Adam Smith may have traveled to England to seek a career in the Church of England: but the veracity of the matter remains debatable. The reason why he renounced his faith and returned to Scotland is unknown, but it is certain that Adam Smith had become a deist by this time.
In 1751 Adam Smith was appointed Professor of Logic at the University of Glasgow, and in 1752 he became Professor of Moral Philosophy.
His lectures include ethics, rhetoric, law, political economy, and "policing and taxation."
In 1759 he published A Treatise of Moral Sentiments, which concretized some of his lectures in Glasgow. At the time, Adam Smith gained a reputation for publishing these studies, which focused on how humans communicate through emotional interactions between intermediaries and bystanders (i.e., the interaction of individuals with other members of society).
His research on language development is more superficial. Adam Smith's fluent, persuasive, and even ornate discourse stands out, and his argument is based neither on a particular "conscience" like Shaftesbury and Hutchison, nor on utilitarianism like Hugh, but on compassion.
Adam Smith's teaching gradually shifted away from moral theory to focus on law and economics. The development of his ideas during this period can be seen in the lecture notes transcribed by one of his students in 1763.
By the end of 1763, the statesman Charlie Townsund, the man who had introduced Smith to David Hugh, offered Adam Smith a lucrative job as a personal tutor to his son, later Duke Bruce.
Adam Smith resigned from his professorship at the university and toured Europe with his disciples between 1764 and 1766, mostly in France, where he also met many intellectuals, such as Anerobel, Jacques Durgo and D'Alembert, and above all François Quenet, the leader of the physiocrat, whose theories Adam Smith had great respect.
After returning to Cococcati, Adam Smith spent the next 10 years writing his magnum opus, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, also known as The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776. (To be continued......)