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shot note :- overcoming the angel in the house ( prose :- profession for women by virginia Woolf ) help !!​

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• Angel in the House imagery in “Professions for Women”
• Angel in the House imagery in “Professions for Women”Posted on April 13, 2012 by allygutierrez
• Angel in the House imagery in “Professions for Women”Posted on April 13, 2012 by allygutierrezIn “Professions for Women,” Virginia Woolf carries the image of the Angel in the House from the beginning to the end. The Angel is the phantom that represses her and attempts to force out imagination and creativity. Woolf describes the Angel as being pure, selfless, and sympathetic, but is ultimately forced to kill her in order to preserve her writing career.
• This passage seems to imply that being like the Angel and being a professional writer are mutually exclusive. I understand that Woolf might have meant that in order to progress forward, we must cast off the shackles of the past but ‘killing’ is a very drastic word.
• This behavior, that is generally frowned upon by society, is rewarded with rooms of [one’s] own “in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men,” but in order to do so, does a woman have to sacrifice the feminine part of her? Is Woolf saying that in order to succeed as a professional woman, traits such as selflessness and sympathy must be completely surprised in order to truly be free? Are women who care for families and more inclined to be maternal forced to live under the tyrannical shadow of their Angel, never to be free? Could Woolf be implying that the male-dominated society has forced women into roles where they must be entirely professional or entirely ‘angelic’?