Anchoring the Past in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

As a modernist writer, Virginia Woolf was influenced by Marcel Proust in terms of structuring her writing around the concept time and memories. Unlike Proust, who questions validity fluidity past remembrances tries to make confession his memories, find balance between present through use In article A Sketch Past, she mentions that about helped face settle accounts with it. She calls small when could realize herself as “moments being” they help anchor stabilize present. writing, places like clock tower or lighthouse turn into sites memory where see looming presence over navigate it form memory, these colossal structures let nebulous exterior events lose their hegemony understand location space time. To Lighthouse is an important source for understanding Woolf’s memory. this novel, fuses present; objects people order harmonious life. This paper aims investigate impact relationship on formation identities individuals Lighthouse.