Vision of Reality in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf‟s experience of the social, the solitary, and the visionary of human experience is revealed in both her group expression and individual expression. She believed that one could realize the private life by loosely accepting the code of behaviour prescribed by a particular social group, in their private life. Her vision of reality postulated both a world of time-flux and a universal harmony outside of flux. Her purpose as an artist was to communicate in the unity and flow of character and symbol this double aspect of reality which combined to form the common life. Lily‟s vision of life itself has been surrounded by fluid impressions and personalities. All the fluidity of impressions, of human personalities, of things, which have touched Lily have been struck into stability by that unity which is the singleness of her reality vision