Essay Comparing Woolf's Three Guineas And The Waves

Shifting Points of View: Subjective/Inside versus Objective/Outside in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas and The Waves that one character’s perception of that scene had no impact on the way they perceived it. But, all the monologue, what the reader gets to experience is a subjective experience, which thus removes us from the objective world Woolf is aiming for. This further represents the battle between the insider and outsider where Woolf does this kind of thing in her narration in order to show the audience what substance you get if you have a subjective point of view, which is nothing considering there is not an actual plot in this novel—just the telling of life happenings of the characters. Richardson further discussed the reaction from

Three Guineas works to promote and argue that an objective outside is better than a subjective inside. The two opposing worlds work in a way in which one is the solution to the other one which is what Woolf claims is the cause of world problems. But, The Waves proves that the neither is a solution, nor a problem because one can be submersed in the subjective world while still maintaining its own objective, personal opinion without being tainted or distorted by others in the same subjective world. Through the narrative doubling of the central marker and the characters in the novel, and the everlasting effort to convince her audience to carry an objective outlook when trying to eliminate world issues, it is made clear there is no real solution, though Woolf argues there is. In the reality of things, people are going to have opinions they are going to share, and others are going to be influenced by those opinions. The contrast of ideals show but one bridge to a solution, though the actuality of reaching the solution in those terms is nonexistent. Because The Waves’ characterization and narrative structure dismantle Woolf’s argument for an objective world instead of a subjective world within its own contents, it is made clear that the argument itself is subjective thus cannot be successful across an entire spectrum of world issues, specifically war, though argued heavily for in Three Guineas. The idea that the objective viewpoint represents real facts, and the subjective viewpoint represents emotions holds true throughout both works as the audience can see that subjective viewpoints are based on one’s personal reactions, therefore their own emotions, toward an event, while an objective view shows what is actually there, as a concrete figure. Because Woolf’s argument is based on her personal emotions toward war and other world issues, her opinion for a solution is brought on through a very subjective