Transformation of the Worldview in the Ramsay Family in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

Abstract

This research is an attempt to show Ramsay Family’s worldview on the basis of the text to the lighthouse by Virginia woolf. The main character Mrs. Ramsay has a dream to send her son James to the lighthouse to relief from this material life, achieve with self awareness intuitive knowledge and self realization. All embodied souls are under the control of the three modes or qualities of material nature goodness, passion and ignorance.

This research will find out fulfillment of the Mrs. Ramsay desire to go to the lighthouse. As a journey begins from one place to another, incompleteness to completeness, pessimistic thinking to optimistic thinking. Their journey begins for intuitive knowledge from ignorance to self realization. When they gain in intuitive knowledge; they reach to the ultimate goal. And, the final realization is the achievement of the self realization which is out or ignorance. Now, they get relief from various tensions.