 Hello friends, welcome to arpitaakarva.com India's finest online coaching for English literature. Now friends, we'll be covering the summary of To the Lighthouse written by Wachiniawulf today. Now this novel was written in the period of literary modernism. The story is set up in the period of 1910 to 1920 in Scotland and in this work a painter in the act of painting actually figures as a character and the lighthouse is a symbol of three things and you have to remember this very carefully. These three things are permanence of the heart of change, celebration of life in the heart of death and celebration of order in the heart of chaos. The novel is divided into three sections, the window, the time passes and the lighthouse. The woman character who is an artist by profession in Virginia Wool's To the Lighthouse is Lily Briscoe. Now friends, we'll discuss it section by section. The story starts just before the start of World War I and Mr. Ramsey and Mrs. Ramsey bring their eight children to their summer home in a palace called Hebrides in Scotland. There is a large lighthouse across their summer home and the youngest child James Ramsey who is just six years old desperately wants to go to the lighthouse. Now Mrs. Ramsey tells him that they will go there the next day if the weather is clear but Mr. Ramsey tells him coldly that the weather looks to be foul and James resents his father and believes that he enjoys being cruel to him and his siblings. The Ramsey family is not the only one in the summer house at that time. They are hosting a number of guests. One of those people is Charles Stansley. He's a student of Mr. Ramsey and he admires Mr. Ramsey's work as a metaphysical philosopher. Due to his behaviour very few people like him and also at the house there is Lily Briscoe, a young painter who is making a portrait of Mrs. Ramsey. Mrs. Ramsey wants Lily to marry William Bankers and old family friend of the Ramseys and Lily however wants to remain single. Mrs. Ramsey also wants two of their other acquaintances, Paul Rayleigh and Minta Doyle to get married. So after a while Paul proposes to Minta. Now what happens in the second section that is the window? Lily begins her painting and Mrs. Ramsey is still soothing the resultful James and Mr. Ramsey is looking down upon himself over his shortcomings as a philosopher. Then he turns to Mrs. Ramsey for comfort. Now Lily becomes furious over the comments made by Charles Stansley who suggests that women can neither paint nor write. So there's a moment when Mrs. Ramsey leaves her guests in the dining room to sit alone. Later she joins her husband in the parlour. The couple sits together quietly and Mr. Ramsey's characteristic insecurities interrupt their peace. He wants his wife to tell him that she loves him and Mrs. Ramsey is not the kind of person who expresses her love openly. But through her actions she makes it clear that she loves him. Now in the third section we see that time passes more quickly when the novel enters the time passes stage. War breaks out across Europe. Mrs. Ramsey dies suddenly one night. Andrew Ramsey her oldest son is also killed in a battle. His sister, Pru, also dies while giving birth to a child. The family doesn't go to the summer house for so long after all the mishappenings and the house falls into a state of disrepair. Weeds take over the garden and spiders nest in the house in ten years pass. The family decides to return to the house and Mrs. McNabb, the housekeeper, employs a few other women to help set the house in order. They restore the house from all the mess and the family along with Lily Briscoe returns. Then in the last section the time again turns slow and Mr. Ramsey's behavior is also changed. He changes because no one is able to understand him as much his wife used to. Now since she is no more so he is bound to change. He wants James and Cam, one of his daughters, to accompany him to the lighthouse and his children are unable to understand the reasons behind their father wanting them to go to the lighthouse even though they have grown up now. The Ramsey is set off and Lily who abandoned the painting on the last visit is desperate to complete it on this visit. While on the voyage Mr. Ramsey praises James over his boat rowing skills. James experience a moment of connection with his father finally who like kind of never praised him earlier. Now Mr. Ramsey thinks that he has fulfilled his wife's desire by bringing her son to the lighthouse and across the bay Lily makes the finishing touches on her painting and puts the brush down. She finally achieves her vision of completing the portrait and with this the story ends. Now this novel was ranked 15th in the list of top 100 novels of the 20th century by publisher Modern Library. The plot of this novel is very similar to the life of Virginia Woolf. The narrative techniques used in this novel is stream of consciousness and in the beginning of this novel Mrs. Ramsey tells her son yes of course if it's fine tomorrow but you'll have to be up with luck. Now friends the last line of this novel is it was done, it was finished, yes. She thought laying down her brush in extreme fatigue I have had my vision. So these are some of the important facts and quotes and with this we come to the end of the lecture. We'll meet soon in the next one until the time we meet next. Happy learning, keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpitakarwa.com