Summary of Profession for Women
Virginia Woolf is addressing a group of women seeking employment predominant (gayant enfura gua) for men. Woolf claims that in order to be a successful writer, female writer must defeat "The Angel in the House." This angel represents the ideal woman. Woolf describes the angel as: sympathetic, (fa) charming () unselfish, pure, beautiful, and graceful ().
In the essay, she recalls that once she had to write a review about a novel written by famous man. She says that while writing novel or writing review of the novel, she had killed angel in the house. According to her, three are two major obstacles (n) for women, including women authors: are the conventional notion of the role and the taboo (परम्परागत रुपमा निषेध) regarding the expression of their sexuality.
She finds writing is easier job for females than others. She adds that writing is a reputable and harmless occupation. It is very cheap job because a pen and paper are only needed to write. Parents donot have burden of economy while investing in the field of writing. Sitting at home, she can write. So, family peace is not broken. If they choose the field of doctors and astronauts, they should have the problem of economy and should go outside to fulfill their tasks and they might be view negatively by the society.
From the essay, she wants all females to be bold and educated. She is trying to say that they are as equal as males so that they should not be angel in the house but to make the future, they should involve in productive works. She wants women's freedom from economic slavery. She makes a strong appeal for women's liberation from conventional shackles. In the late Victorian and early twentieth century, women had no economic independence. They were not still free to speak, to write and to think in the way they liked. They were impeded by man-made standards. Woolf imagines herself to be a girl sitting with a pen in her hand for minutes and for hours without dipping -8'afpg it in the inkpot.
Woolf shares a strange experience in writing novels. She feels that anovelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. In other words, while writing, she should not think about conventional notion of patriarchy that is imposed to females. If she thinks so, she is not able to give innovative ideas in the novel and cannot kill the phantom (Angel in the house).
1.How could Woolf's warnings about the danger of the Angel in the House be useful to modem women who are in careers other than writing, such as law or publishing or engineering?
ans:Woolf's warnings about the danger of the Angel in the House be useful to modem women who are in careers other than writing, such as lawyer or engineering. The phantom is a woman whom she calls "The Angel in The House' that stands for womanly perfection of the so called good nurtured social identity. Whenever she begins to write "The Angel in The House' comes between her and her paper. Women who are lawyer or engineer they have to go out of their home to enhance their job. Such courses are very expensive. In patriarchy, people may think that they just become showy and cross the norms and values of the society. They would also feel insulted in the society.