The Hours

1. Describe the three female characters in great detail? What do they have in common?

How do they differ? How does their era influence who they are?

Virginia Woolf

The author of the book who was jealous of her sister because she has the children. Her family members didn’t realize what she really need according to Virgina. To her , death is the way to escape the miserable live, so it assists people in creating a new fresh one as living in heaven.

Lora:

She is depressed and find a way to end it by killing themselves but later she determine to kill someone else. She decided to live because of her son ‘s love. In brief she has to hide her true feeling and desperately to let it out. In addition to that, she abandoned her family to find her true happiness. When a person “has no choice”, she nor he should regret.

Miss Delaware:

She was enduring to see her beloved Richard suffering AIDS. Her relationship with Richard was somehow mysterious on the account that they didn’t live together.Just like Woolf and Lora, Delaware too tends to bear the miserable life and not regret it

They are interested in literature as the “devise” to avoid reality. Duel to the fact that men tend to control their life, they start to love each other ,not it the sexual way. Thus they are all controlled like a puppet in their life.

2.Compare/Contrast these female characters with the female characters from the

literature weʼve read.

First of all, the women intend to have a happy life through many method because the society is dominated by men; hence, the women are controlled like a toy. The three women in The hour choose their unhappy lives by escape the reality through literature or sometime attempt to end their lives. In the other word , they are independent from their husband. As opposed to this, the female characters from the literature we’ve read mostly depend on the men . For instance, Abigael in the Crucible and Mattie in Ethan Frome need the men to benefit their lives.