Russell, ShannonKlausner, Lewis SamuelPellegrino, Alice2024-05-312024-05-312021Pellegrino, Alice. "The Representation of Nature in Virginia Woolf’s Novels". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2021.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/87Thesis (B.A. in English Literature, Minor in History)--John Cabot University, Spring 2021.In Virginia Woolf’s novels, Nature is always present. It takes the form of the flowers in Mrs. Dalloway, the sea in To the Lighthouse, and the trees in Orlando. In all of these novels, Nature dominates the scenery, and the visions of Woolf’s protagonists. While its specific functions vary depending on the case, Nature generally represents an inspiration for selfdiscovery. It helps Clarissa and Septimus to discover the true essence of life; it teaches Lily how to be a woman and an artist in Edwardian England; it leads Orlando to embrace a new and androgynous gender identity. To see how Virginia Woolf gives such a great power to Nature, the four chapters of this thesis are going to analyze in detail the functions of flowers, the sea, and the trees in Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. In particular, the thesis will consider Virginia Woolf’s representations of Nature in relation to those of the Romantics, and to the woman’s feminist ideas. Quite frequently, Woolf’s personal desire to promote change for both her sex and marginalized people becomes alive on the page.iii, 57 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941Thesis