Literature / Room

The same article begins to come to a little warm-up, first think about the following two questions.
1. Do you have your own room?
2. Do you like your (or your) room?

The other day, I saw this article [Advertisement] by @watching ravings and "HCG and Cheng-Secrets" by Hecheng Sanitary Ware: Do you also have a secret? , I suddenly felt that the bathroom is indeed a very good place, and I also thought of a piece of literature about space. Today, I will share it with you in a simple way. The outline is bathroom->room->space->literature. write clearly!

In college, I lived with roommates. When I encounter something difficult to deal with, or suddenly see sadness while watching a drama, which leads to emotional instability, I will rush into the bathroom and cry silently. The advantage of the bathroom is that you can stay for a long time without anyone asking what you just did in the bathroom, you can stay until you are finally calm, and you can even look at your face in the mirror to see if your nose is still red, Check to see if the eyes are swollen.

A while ago, I discovered another good thing about bathrooms on Facebook. I see a lot of people sharing that after the baby is born, because he doesn’t want to face the new-born annoying little boy at home, his father will spend more time in the toilet, swiping on his phone, playing games, and watching videos in it. At this time, the bathroom is like a small space for people to avoid stress. If you hide in, you can block the disturbance outside, and you can live in your own small world out of sight.

The bathroom is a secret base, a place to release emotions and escape stress. However, why do you need to go to the bathroom, can't it be in the room? Is the room not private enough and need a more private place? Okay, so that's the "room" we're going to talk about today. In fact, not everyone has their own room. For example, relationships like siblings, husband and wife, or parent-child relationships can turn your room into everyone's room and lose privacy.

When I was a child, I shared a room with my younger brother. I slept together, and played with toys. It was not until college that I finally moved to the third floor by myself and had my own space at home, although at that time the university would only come back to live on holidays. At first, when my mother told me to move, I didn't want to feel troublesome. But I feel very happy after having my own room. I can finally arrange my own room, have my own schedule, and sing loudly, without worrying about my brother.

And today, the literature to share about "rooms" is Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, which translates to "one's own room." In fact, the room where the title of this book is translated, I think it is not wrong to call it a space. I think it is my own space where I can enjoy my time and enjoy writing. Among them, there is a very interesting sentence in the book, Woolf said: If a woman wants to write a novel, she must have money and a room of her own (Note 2) .

Why do you say this way? Having money means you don't have to worry about money; having a room means you have a writing space where you won't be disturbed. However, it is not easy for women to enjoy their own room (or space). Because men and women have been in an unequal position at home for a long time, no matter in the East or the West, most women have the pressure of "male outside and female inside", the obligation to do housework, such as cooking, sweeping the floor, taking care of children, etc. They don't have time to stay in their own space to brew.

Woolf explains it with a story that assumes Shakespeare has a twin sister, Judith, who is equally gifted, but who will lead completely different lives because of their gender. When Shakespeare was educated at school, she did housework at home, secretly wrote and wrote essays and burned them; when Shakespeare went to the London theatre to develop, she was forced to marry by her father, and then she secretly fled to London to see if there was a good development . Finally, by the time Shakespeare became a successful playwright, she had committed suicide.

No matter in Chinese or Western literature, there seem to be only a handful of famous female writers in history. Are women inherently inferior to men in writing? Do not.Wolff said: In Shakespeare's time, no woman could write Shakespeare's plays (Note 3) . Because there is no environment for women to create, how can you expect good literature. Therefore, women can't write, and men use their perspective to write what they think is a woman, but she is not a woman in women's cognition.

On the contrary, for those works marked Anon (anonymous), Woolf believes that the original writers are mostly women (Note 4). Similarly, is it possible that the "anonymous" in Chinese poetry could also be created by women? It seems that gender does have a great influence on literature. After all, even JK Rowling changed her pseudonym to neutral for fear of gender discrimination. But relatively, there have been many modern female writers, and when the change in the general environment allows women to have the space to create, it also encourages them to speak out bravely.

So, women writers in Matt City, how are you?

(Note 1) Virginia Woolf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia Woolf
(Note 2) A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
(Note 3) It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
(Note 4) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.