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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Transcending Death
Transcending Death in To the Lighthouse
The greatest obstacle to identifying a purpose for human life is the inevitability of
death. Why should a human being strive for any goal when death will always be the final
result of his striving, and after death he will be oblivious to any positive or negative effects
of his lifetime actions? Virginia Woolf tackles this dilemma in her novel To the Lighthouse
by presenting characters who attempt to …
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…lived to accomplish great things,
lived for other people, or lived for moments of creative insight. The irony is that each of
these characters envies the others to a certain extent, but in hearing all the monologues the
reader can tell that none is in a really enviable position. Woolf leaves it up to the reader to
develop his own method for transcending death or convince himself that death does not
need to be transcended.
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