5.

In Virginia Woolf's "Professions for Women," "the Angel in the House"

represents the ideal Victorian woman, who suppresses her own wants in order to meet male standards.
Woolf calls for the symbolic death of this angel in order to empower women to prioritize their own
needs and properly express their views and feelings.

6. Woolf considers the ways in which women have been shut out from social and

political institutions throughout history, illustrating her argument by observing that she, as a woman,
would not be able to gain access to a manuscript kept within an all-male college at ‘Oxbridge’

7. Woolf discusses the barriers women faced in obtaining an education, seeking

employment, and partaking in artistic undertakings. Woolf argues for the importance of economic and
intellectual freedom in fostering creativity and self-expression by studying the problems that women
authors have encountered throughout history.

8. Woolf explores the idea that women have historically been denied the same opportunities for

education and creative expression as men, saying that in order to produce great work, both men and women must
be able to access and integrate traditionally masculine and feminine attributes.