Colour and Vision in ' To The Lighthouse'

M. K. BHAVNAGR UNIVERSITY

Name : Bhumi Vinodbhai Joshi

Sem : 3 ( M.A. English)

Batch Year : 2014 - 2016

Roll NO : 2

Enrolment No : PG14101020 

Paper Name : 9, The Modernist Literature

Assignment Topic: Colour and Vision in the novel  ' To The Lighthouse

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• Preface :

            'To The Lighthouse'  is written by Virginia Woolf in 1920. It is a revolutionary book. Woolf was attempting something quite new in English novel. She wanted to capture, in words , the nature of human consciousness - What it actually feels to be alive.

            The novel at some extent - It is a biography of writer herself - Virginia Woolf. readers can feel during reading novel that...

                                   

" One  isn't always hurrying to turn over the page, urgently wanting to find out what happens next."

            ' To The Lighthouse' is in the category of the 20th century literature. So, we may assume that what is it about. Obviously reading modernist literature do not provide the pleasure or delight but it creates anxiety and  it constantly hammering on readers mind.

            Thought story of novel is too short, the novel is full of length. One can describe the plot and the main concept of the novel in short also.

Arnold Bennett summarized the novel like...

" A group of people plan to sail in a small boat to a Lighthouse. At the end of some of them reach to the Lighthouse in small boat. That is the externality of the plot."

                        In above review , Arnold Bennett deliberately emphasised on the plot's 'externality'. In the novel , something is more deeper rather than the surface actions which is going on in life. At the first sight it seems like that the whole events which are described by Woolf themselves quite unimportant.

            This novel is about different way of  perceiving the process of life. Each character does struggle to find the answers :  Who knows what we are; what we feel ?

            ' To The Lighthouse ' is the unequal lengths of the time covered by each of three sections. The first and the third - " The Window and The Lighthouse "  each occupy less than a day. On the other hand , the middle section " The Time Passes " deals with a span of about ten years.

            Writer - Virginia Woolf attempts to represent the workings of the representation of what was to her most fragile ,dangerous and existing of processes life itself.

            In the novel - " Life is a luminous halo, a semi transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. We find many characters like.... Mr. Ramsay, Mrs.Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, James , Cam, Rose, and so many others but the protagonist of the novel is Mrs. Ramsay. Because of her strong influences, she is alive in the novel after her death also.

             Human beings have emotions and feelings. Sometime it is hard and difficult to hide whatever it is.....Hate, Love, Disgust, Sorrow, etc.. The same way , Colours also reflect the instinct emotions and feelings which is more powerful than the word.

             At one level, Life is colourful. It is mixture of multicolour but it has one main object and colour which is stood throughout the time. So, each character reflects one colour in the novel : ' To The Lighthouse '. So, let's discuss Colour and Vision in the novel. Colour in ' To The Lighthouse ' by Jack. F. Stewart and Vision in the Lighthouse by ' Glenn Pedersen's articles are base of my assignment.

 v   Colour In To The Lighthouse :

           

                                                             Literature is also considered as art. In literature has pictorial quality through words and words are able to  create images in mind. The word colour is direct connect with the 'Painting.' According to Virginia Woolf ...................

" Painting and Writing ...have much in common. The novelist after all wants to make us see .. It is very complex business, the mixing and marrying of words that goes on , probably unconsciously , in the poet's mind to feed the reader's eye. All great writers are great colourists."

            In the novel - ' To The Lighthouse '  writer Woolf tries to search for spiritual essences which is expressed in light and colour. We find two major perspective to define light and colour :  Creative Source and Creative Artist. Mrs. Ramsay may be introduced as " Creative Source " and Lily  Briscoe as " Creative Artist."

            Colour  is used  as various way like... symbol, radiance, vibration of some feelings etc.. But in ' To The Lighthouse ' Woolf 's art goes beyond impressionism and symbolism towards a flexible form that " does not shot out. "

·         What Colour reflects ?

             Colour indicates the personality, individual qualities of characters. We can understand the nature , and behaviour of characters through colour. The experience of colour relations is more than optional sensation. It is a complex experience hard to put into words, a stimulus and revelation.

" Colour is a sensitive medium for expressing both individual and universal experience."

            In the novel, The outline and the colours are no longer distinct from each other. Writer Woolf does the characterization of  each character with..........

" One's personality is seen and grasped in one's glance , which is, however no more than a combination of colours."

            As we all know the rules of science which describes that Objects do not have colours but for the eye all objects exposed to light absorb some rays and reflects others. Just as white light refracted through a prism produces the seven colours of the Spectrum, so being refracted through the self produces the psychological spectrum of the novel. And ' To The Lighthouse' is built on nexus of Light and Colour.  

            Mrs. Ramsay identifies with the light with prism through this character this charactec, others are able to stand in their position Lilly Briscoe "do not seek to imitate form, but to create form, not to imitate life, but to find an equivalent for life."

           

            So many different colours are used in the novel like.. Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Black, etc....we find the mixture of colours in one, Through colour, reader can feel positive and negative vibration of the characters.

          

             Mrs Ramsay's absorptive powers are seen in her withdrawal into darkness, but She is also a powerful reflector of light, who illuminates others lives.

          

             If  Mrs. Ramsay consider to light as essences , Lily Briscoe consider to color as the contingent substance of reality and art Through the each part are may come across the detail how each part is portrait with different colour.

            

 The Window             :- Symbol of light

 The Passes                :-darkness and silence

  The Lighthouse        :-Mrs. Ram say's spiritual light into voyage and form and colour 

                                      in Lily's painting.

          Mrs.Ramsay described with 'Red'.-His Red-hot pokers, red geraniums. and reddish-brown hedge; the reddish-brown stocking that Mrs, Ramsay is knitting for the lighthouse. Keeper's Son ; her image of James 'all red and ermine on the Bench"; Paul Rayley's blaze of amorous passing ;and Charles Transley's red raucousness. Red color ascribes the male egotism.

         Reader  constantly heard  the background sound of Sea which is associated

with the Blue colour. Green is associated with Green - illusion and imagination. Mr. Carmichael's eye and opium is associated with yellow colour and "Yellow Eye" of the Lighthouse , " Pure lemon" of its beams, the harvest moon - is associated with meditation and intoxication.

Paul - " reddish light"

Cam -  " green light"

James's memory of his mother - " A blue light"

Mrs. Ramsay - Lighthouse itself.

            Gray is used as background colour through out the novel . It is said that the essence of women in 'gray ' , which is paradoxical fusion of presence and absence fullness and emptiness , colour and colourlessness. Just as gray is the " abstract " of all complementary and all colours combined.

" Colour expresses something in itself."

            Lily Briscoe does not analyze her emotions; she feels " Some instinctive need of distance and blue."

Example :

" In Lily's mind the dinning table becomes a surreal emblem of Locke's "primary qualities" of shape and extension, divorced from "second qualities of colour and feelings."

            Mrs. Ramsay is intellectual person who is planning a lecture on Home and Locke. Lily's task is not to reject such empiricism, but to marry it to Mrs. Ramsay's mysticism :

"One wanted , she thought , dipping her brush deliberately to feel simply that's chair , that's table and yet the same time. It's a miracle , it's an ecstasy."

            This clearly exemplify the dual way of seeing, at once true to the object and expressive of the subject , combines two way of looking represented by the two Ramsay.

            Lily is tackling a fertile dilemma, " In the conflict between strong colour and strong form each adversary grows in stature and power through their mutual confrontation strong form and space inhibit colour interaction while strong colour interaction obliterates form and space."

            Lily Briscoe feels the plastic stress disrupt the flat surface of her canvas , and threaten her own psychic balance. The more she plunges into her painting and tackles the problems of colour and form , the more she encounters the unconscious substructure of her personality.

            Blue is associated with Sea, Sky , a bird plumage , shadows of the hedge , pigments on Lily's palette or canvas , parental shadow, distance and vision ,Mrs. Ramsay's aura , the reflecting surface of the Sea, smoke and unreality , eyes of all male characters except the poet Carmichael.

            Discussing , so many things with Blue colour , Blue becomes the visionary colour for Woolf. Mrs. Ramsay's peculiar combination of radiance and sombreness, ...

" Blue is darkness made visible."  - agree with the tonal range of blue from height to depth . Sky to Sea, " bright steel to soft purple" and blue -white to blue-black." The dual extremes of palest and darkest blue relate to the light/darkness duality extremes of palest Mrs.Ramsay being.

            Mrs. Ramsay's Spiritual experience is mediated by image of light and darkness. So, Mrs.Ramsay is associated with a whole range of colour. Blue ,may be used as a background to show off other colour.

According to Nietzsche.......

" In books there are blue shades of colour with which their author seek to steady his taut sensitivity."

            Blue gives vibration to other colours, so one must bring a certain amount of blue into painting. Mrs.Ramsay provides the visionary " background " of the novel , its sense of spiritual space and depth. Red and Blue are often found in conjunction in the novel.

             With red and blue there are must either be conflict or chromatic marriage resulting in some shade of purple. Transley's , despite his "Purple Book" , fails to achieve integration between the restless red of his Ego and the tranquilizing blue of Mrs. Ramsay's  spirit.

            But Lily, who synthesizes spiritual rays of mother and son into " triangular purple shape" is moved - after an outburst of imaginary red " by some instinctive need of distance and blue" that helps her to harmonizes her painting. The colour red is associated with effort and excitation.

            In the novel mental and spiritual , personal and impersonal energies are polarized in juxtaposition of red and blue.

            Mrs. Ramsay 's ego conflicts which is connected to red emphasize the desirability of impersonal vision , the maternal colour , is associated with liberation and expansion.

            The blood red blur is symptom of self - blinded ego for one see red if one closes one's eye against the light.

" Something red , something brown."

The lighthouse itself is glimpsed "between two clumps of red- hot- pokers" as the blue bay had been through the hedge.

            In the colour coding of  Ramsay's blue is associated with distance , imagination, short-sightedness; red with closeness , rationality , farsightedness. The long view is free of complexity but unfocused - " Blue and Purple become hopelessly lost to blur in darkness and distance."

            In To The Lighthouse, red becomes constructive only under the aegis of Mrs. Ramsay who gives the order to " Light the Candles."

            Lily is fascinated  by the raw force of sexuality- directly expressed to her painter's sensibility as reddish light and crackling fire - yet it seems to threaten not only her psychic balance , but the very fabric of a culture based on sublimation.

            Lily needs to deal with the counter force of the masculine ego, as she needs to balance the colours and masses in her painting. It is the dominance of green on her palette that incites the blaze of red in her imagination.

            'Red' and 'Green' are of all complementary colours the most equal in depth and green is intensified by proximity to red. Thus, Lily's reflections on her masculine opposite stimulate , rather than inhabit , her colour and vision.

            The Green Sea also has " a Purplish stain...as if something had boiled and bled, invisibly , beneath." The colour green is also associated tangentially with Mrs.Ramsay , and directly with Lily . Green and Blue are frequently juxtaposed , suggesting affinities between aesthetic and spiritual modes of visions.

            " Green is the intermediate between yellow and blue" which clearly reflects Lily's position in the colour scale between her fellow artist, Carmichael , and her spiritual mother , Mrs. Ramsay . Her Purple plays a key role as chromatic signifier of integration.

            Yellow the most luminous colour. None other might wear a yellow garment; yellow was symbol of supreme wisdom and enlightenment. Yellow will be seen as the nearest and largest of colours; Augustus, " drinking soup , is very large and calm in the failing light, and monumental and contemplative.

            The colour violet is the complement of greenish - yellow - a mixture of motifs associated with Mrs.Ramsay , Lily and Carmichael.

            Woolf is trying to come close to the 'Pure colour of painting - colour without any literary meaning' colour effects are.......intensified  by contrast.

"Language might be able to create a relation similar to that established by colours in a painting."

                        Thus , discussing  the details , we may say that in ' To The Lighthouse, each character has  as it is its own frequency associations. The language of colour is integral to Woolf's vision and design , as she explores the interface between fiction and painting.

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 v Vision In " To The Lighthouse" :

                                                The novel - " To The Lighthouse " begins with James's desire to go the lighthouse and ends with that desire fulfilled , but the extent of desire thwarted during the intervening years of family experience is immense.Though  it is external plot of the novel, there is something behind it. Some layers are there which is more important in the novel.

            The action of the novel shows Mrs. Ramsay to be an absolute matriarch whose dominion lives ten years beyond herself. Her blunder is ironic in that she is unaware of it but Mr. Ramsay experiences it and Lily Briscoe finally comes to know it in her vision.

            As we know that novel deals with the complexity of human relations in life. To ascribe the complexity of everyday life, Woolf uses the narrative technique which is called " Steam Of Consciousness." Using such psychological aspect for narration she makes her character  more complex because thoughts never have sequences. She describes the fragmentation of each thing like.....Thoughts, Emotions, Feelings. Though such kind of feelings are formal for human being, it creates inner turmoil in common people life.

            Here, we discuss the vision in " To The Lighthouse" .

            Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe both are totally opposite to each   other . At the surface level it is considered that novel is the tribute of Mrs. Ramsay . As we all already know the stereotypical Indian culture Mrs. Ramsay is presented as same as Indian women presented in their literature.

            Mrs. Ramsay does all things for family members. She lives for others throughout her life , she does so many things and sacrifices for the sake of others , and so many things which is already decided by patriarchal society.  Mrs. Ramsay is alive in mind of others after her death  because of her services and compassion to each. She is also known as " Angle Of The House ".

Lily Briscoe is free from such kind of boundaries . She likes her own freedom first. She tries to prove herself in front of the society that women has also equal opportunity and intelligence. She can do any thing which she wants. Lily tries to break wrong idea that.....

" Woman can't paint and write."

            She does that and prove women's identity as intellectual as man. Both are remarkable characters in the novel because Mrs. Ramsay is alive because of her woman hood only and Lily Briscoe for her art. Both have their vision. - some extent it is different then even at some level it is similar.

            Lily Briscoe's vision completely establishes the nature of the Ramsay family and added legit motives and images of Window and  The Lighthouse , Land and Sea repeat the theme on the symbolic level until at the end the unity of the painting is complete when Lily Briscoe has had her vision.

            Mrs. Ramsay's character is more complex to understand .She might have managed things better - her husband , although she never regretted her decisions, evaded her difficulties or avoided her duties , in spite of occasional premonitions that her life was " all ephemeral as rainbow."

            Lighthouse - stand for Mrs. Ramsay , as lighthouse show the path who lost their direction in Sea because of heavy storm or weather. The same way, Mrs.Ramsay is source of emotional security for all members. We may say that she is the centre of all and also become the bridge between her husband and her children . As lighthouse stands for spiritual and inner light , Mrs.Ramsay also stands for it because she is only one who has power to connect or hold all members together.

            Mrs. Ramsay's attitude towards others is determined by their attitude towards her Virginia Woolf uses the juxtaposition is masterful and extremely effective; throughout the novel . She subtly reveals the cryptic character of Mrs. Ramsay by this means.Reader comes to know the shabbiness of Mrs. Ramsay's relation with her son; the house, the symbolic extension of the window , her husband , etc.

            If Mrs. Ramsay could see what the blunder is, her life of dominion would be ended if she were a regenerate person. She herself feels;

" Nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions."

            Being emotional she tends to see nothing but emotion in Mr. Ramsay during the crisis of mother - son , father antagonism ; she saw him " Outraged and anguished " ; and then " She stroked James's head ; she transferred to him what she feels for her husband."

            Thus, Mrs. Ramsay becomes ' the wall ' between children and father rather than the 'Bridge' . And after her death it is clearly visible to reader.Mrs.Ramsay is creative source of vision and Lily Briscoe is Creative artist. Somehow, both have same vision , Mrs. Ramsay's vision reflects through her way of living life. And, Lily Briscoe's vision reflects with capturing the way of living life of Mrs.Ramsay in painting as an art.

             It is difficult to define vision with general aspect because with the help of painting . We clearly exemplify the vision of Lily Briscoe but what about Mrs. Ramsay Questions remains there.....

                              " Why Lily Briscoe selects Mrs. Ramsay's painting? "

                          " Through painting does she wants to reflect anything or not ?"

             Mrs. Ramsay survive throughout the novel specially after her death, also. Mrs.Ramsay is alive in memories of characters only because of her own painting/ Art.

           

Mrs. Ramsay would not meet him, physically or intellectually; she would not give him sympathy , assure him of  his genius take him " Within the circle of life." Mr. Ramsay must be assured that " He too lived in the heart of life; was needed."

                                               

Mrs.Ramsay suffers from her inner turmoil because all members are depended on her although Mr. Ramsay was  infinitely the more important , and what she gave the world in comparison with what gave , legible . ... it was painful  to be reminded of inadequacy of human relationships. And Mrs. Ramsay refuses to admit that she is the Fisherman's wife.

            At some level , it seems like that Mrs. Ramsay has domination over her husband. Mrs. Carmichael is later identified as Mrs. Ramsay 's shadow , and we remembered that his wife also dominated  him.

             Marriage - One of the serious discussion topic of the novel. And conversations go on between Mrs.Ramsay and Lily Briscoe about it. Mrs. Ramsay always thinks that the secret to people's happiness lies in marrying them off.

             Marriage of course  , but Mrs. Ramsay's Ego- censor will not allow her to think of her own marriage , but of Paul and  Minta's and the only criticism  of herself that she can conceive is from Minta's parents about Mrs. Ramsay's unappreciated influence.

                        " The Lighthouse , it is made clear that the marriage while not exactly a disaster, is hardly the happy partnership."

            Mrs. Ramsay's  Marriage had one essential - " The things she had with her husband." Woolf describes immediately the exact nature of " essential " and shows that the essence really is matriarchal.

            Mrs. Ramsay has no her own vision except her family and relationship for her, "

" Life is terrible , hostile , her real antagonist."

            She has no time for herself to think . She has many  responsibilities of husband , children and many others and at night may be get some time where she has no need to think of anyone.

             " She could be herself, by herself , and that was now she often felt the need of - to think; well , not even to think . To be silent; to be alone."

            Readers surely say that Mrs. Ramsay is performing a superficial  duty; She is not prompted by her own desire ; she goes only to appease him temporarily and then never may bare their antagonism and perhaps dispel it.

            Wish to go to The Lighthouse , finally complete but it has been done or possible  only after the death of Mrs. Ramsay.How can James go to  the Lighthouse tomorrow , When he is so securely bound to Mrs. Ramsay tonight?

           

            It is the mother, rather than the father , who poisons Cam's  childhood, as well as James's. James can see that the wheel is innocent. He is awakened to reality; he knows the existence of sun and shadow , and thinking of the lighthouse , he realizes its paradoxical nature. Lighthouse is not simply one's thinking. Other Lighthouse  also can be possible . And that is clear vision of it.

            James can see again  in clear vision at the end. He realized  another identify between himself and father.  Mrs. Ramsay could never say what she feels she does not know her unconscious feelings and consciously she does not love Mr. Ramsay.

" Yes, You were right. It's going to be wet tomorrow . You won't be able to go."

            Her selfhood is too dominant to be integrated in an ideal husband - wife relationship. She feels that without triumph, she will be negated ; and thus she negates the family integrity to maintain her own selfish individuality.

            Lily Briscoe came , as " Peace"  and this time entirely " a wake " and thus able to see her vision fulfilled.   James and  Mrs Ramsay still important characters; Cam becomes significant as the female point of view , a potential Mrs. Ramsay , and Lily Briscoe attains major importance as the visionary artist. Lily Briscoe view of  Ramsay family, For she is the artist who had the vision.

            Mrs. Ramsay looked like " a king in Exile" to Lily Briscoe and he was symbolically killed by his son .In the novel " To The Lighthouse "- When Lily Briscoe feels that Mr. Ramsay was making his demand on her. She reacted negatively , as Mrs. Ramsay had.

            Lily Briscoe departs from her role as Mrs. Ramsay who is never ashamed of herself. Lily Briscoe saw a new Mr. Ramsay and lamented her inability to give him her new - felt  sympathy; " but he no longer needed it."

            The entire action of the novel is unfolded symbolically in Lily's painting. She knows the truth of her vision is difficult to bear , so difficult that even she doubt of its validity. In her moments of vision , she sees Mrs. Ramsay , but brush in hand , the shadowy reality was so different from the beautiful appearance that her courage failed.

            " Yes ,with all its green and blues , its lines running up and across; its attempt at something. It would be hung in the attics, she thought; it would be destroyed. But what did that matter ? She asked herself , taking up her brush again . She looked at the steps; they were empty; she looked at her canvas; it was blurred. With  a sudden intensity , as if she saw it clear for a second , she drew a line there , in the centre .It was done;  it was finished. Yes, she thought , lying down her brush in extreme fatigue. I have had my vision."

             In her vision she sees a line, even now , but she doesn't yet know what that line is. Lily Briscoe in her vision truly sees Mrs. Ramsay , herself reveals in her innermost being - that she is a wedge -shaped core of darkness , something invisible to others.

            The last line which is spoken by Lily Briscoe - it interprets with two aspects with two aspects with two aspects. First one is as literal meaning of the words now painting is completed and finished means work is done by her successfully.

            Metaphorically , it suggests that she completed the painting of Mrs. Ramsay who is alive in her painting for womanhood and her qualities. After getting the success against the patriarchal society,  proves herself as great artist - she herself is not able to come out from her inner turmoil , her own inner struggle. question is  .......

" why she  selects the picture of Mrs. Ramsay only ?  What is the purpose of it ?

                        Lily Briscoe thinks that there is no other way of living life foe woman. Only one way of living life which is suggested by Mrs. Ramsay through her womanhood. Only one way of living life which is suggested by Mrs. Ramsay through her womanhood. Being free, being independent , there is something which she feels lack of her in herself and then after completing painting in film speaks that...................

" Closed doors, open windows" Dearest Briscoe, you are a fool " Means at the novel she may want to accept the way of  living life of Mrs.Ramsay.

            Lily Briscoe could see that family and their guests depended on Mrs. Ramsay "directly she went a sort of disintegration set in."

" The subject matter is not love but dependence ."

            Lily Briscoe completes her painting after ten years , she has arrived at the answer to her vision, but could not say just what it is. The outer beauty surely did not reveal the inner state of being. Lily " heard the Sea" and why should she not be content with this ?  Immediately Lily and Mrs. Ramsay experienced a harmony which was followed almost as immediately by Lily's superficial metamorphosis.

            Lily lives alone; Lily feels triumphant over Mrs. Ramsay and her "Mania for marriage." Suddenly she gets  flash to move tree to the middle; then she would " never need marry anybody."

            " Lily feels again physically, the loss of  Mrs.Ramsay , feels  without her the centre of her picture is complete emptiness.

            " Could she not demand to know why Mrs. Ramsay's beauty should not shape the centre?"

            Lily shouted for Mrs. Ramsay to return " but nothing happened."In her vision Lily always sees Mrs. Ramsay associated with death." All had seen parts of the field of death." But always too, the vision has to be perpetually remade."

            " Mr. Ramsay and his children seems to be swallowed up in that blue , that distance,' coming closer and closer to the integrity of her panting . She feels more sympathy with Mr. Ramsay as he passes into the blue , the past and become a part of her vision , as the things near , of this world, " become unreal ..... life was most vivid then."

             And then Lily feels the fullness of life; some common feeling held the whole, " held all the conflicts from destine  grating. Lily 's attention was drawn to the " Window " - Mrs . Ramsay again she recalled that " there must have been people who dislike her very much." Lily realizes that the drawing room step was empty, but it had no effect on her whatever .She did not want Mrs. Ramsay now."

            Reader need to see inside of Mrs.Ramsay to see her character , to see her real relation to Mr. Ramsay , to see that she marries him but did " no more". There conflict endure.

            " Fifty pairs of eyes were not enough to get round that one  woman with...Among them must be one that was stone blind to her beauty."

            Mrs. Ramsay is not the grand presence - she appears to be; she is ordinary in her inner being and only superficially beautiful . This is a realization to share and Lily seeks the only person who knows: Mr. Ramsay.

            As Lily has wanted to give him sympathy because she has come to the same feeling ; that Mrs. Ramsay is an ordinary woman , extraordinary only in her physical beauty - in her heart she is dominated by self hood.

" He has landed , she said aloud.' It is finished."

            Mrs. Ramsay would survey her "final  destiny" from the remoteness  of artistic vision .Lily quickly returned to her picture."There it was.... With all its green and blues , its lines running up and a cross , its attempt as something."

             A single line has connected the light and dark , has filled the vacant centre. With a simplicity that is a beauty of art , Lily Briscoe integrated  Ramsay family in vision ,in her painting Lily Briscoe's vision has revealed the resolution of the conflicts . Mr. Ramsay knew...

" Someone has blundered."

            The action has repeatedly shows that  Mrs. Ramsay is guilty essentially because of her desire for self hood. Family integration is not possible while she lives; only after death , when unconscious forces are exempt from her conscious dominion , does the family come to the best possible integrity.

            And at the end , we may say that Lily Briscoe 's vision is James's desire and in effect the whole family's fulfilled

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·         Epilogue :

       Thus , discussing both Colour  and  Vision in the novel  - " To The Lighthouse", we may conclude that both is important in the novel. Colour is also associated with vision so  both are intermediated into the novel. Both have its own dignity and place which sustain throughout the novel. And writer Woolf with great perspective , use both at the same time.

            It is not easy to give words to painting and also difficult to describe painting in words. In the novel , we find both things with great aspiration which is done by Virginia Woolf.

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Woolf, , Virginia. To The Lighthouse. USA: Longman, 1995.

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