51 pages • 1 hour read
Virginia WoolfA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Woolf states explicitly that the “question—How in your opinion are we to prevent war?” (3) has inspired her to write her letter, even though three years have passed since she received it. Given the historical moment in which she wrote the essay, it is understandable that Woolf felt the need to address the topic. Almost two decades on from the end of the First World War, the nascent fascist governments in Germany and Italy indicated that conflict was seemingly inevitable. With the Second World War beginning not long after the publication of this essay, Woolf was justified in her prediction.
Her analysis of war is different from that of her contemporaries, however. The unnamed correspondent writes to Woolf because he views her as a noted pacifist. There is some truth to this, as Woolf had written about the horrors of war in previous works. However, his fundamentally flawed interpretation of Woolf’s work leads her to write Three Guineas. The correspondent’s mistake is that he views war in isolation, as a horrible plague in need of a cure. But Woolf, as she explains throughout the essay, sees war as a symptom of a disease, rather than the disease itself.
By Virginia Woolf
A Haunted House
Virginia Woolf
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Between The Acts
Virginia Woolf
Flush: A Biography
Virginia Woolf
How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
Kew Gardens
Virginia Woolf
Modern Fiction
Virginia Woolf
Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
The Death of the Moth
Virginia Woolf
The Duchess and the Jeweller
Virginia Woolf
The Lady in the Looking Glass
Virginia Woolf
The Mark on the Wall
Virginia Woolf
The New Dress
Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Virginia Woolf