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The following excerpt is from Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf (p. 525). It
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The following excerpt is from Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf (p. 525). It includes both the first and third person. Rewrite it entirely in the first person for example, with I and we women. Then discuss the effect of your changes. Consider the excerpt in the context of the entire essay. These then were two very genuine experiences of my own. These were two of the adventures of my professional life. The first kill ing the Angel in the House I think I solved. She died. But the second, telling the truth about my own experiences as a body, I do not think I solved. I doubt that any woman has solved it yet. The obstacles against her are still immensely powerful and yet they are very difficult to define. Outwardly, what is simpler than to write books? Outwardly, what obstacles are there for a woman rather than for a man? Inwardly, I think, the case is very different; she has still many ghosts to fight, many prejudices to overcome. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. And if this is so in literature, the freest of all professions for women, how is it in the new professions which you are now for the first time entering?
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The following excerpt is from Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf (p. 525). It includes both the first and third person. Rewrite it entirely in the first person for example, with I and we women. Then discuss the effect of your changes. Consider the excerpt in the context of the entire essay. These then were two very genuine experiences of my own. These were two of the adventures of my professional life. The first kill ing the Angel in the House I think I solved. She died. But the second, telling the truth about my own experiences as a body, I do not think I solved. I doubt that any woman has solved it yet. The obstacles against her are still immensely powerful and yet they are very difficult to define. Outwardly, what is simpler than to write books? Outwardly, what obstacles are there for a woman rather than for a man? Inwardly, I think, the case is very different; she has still many ghosts to fight, many prejudices to overcome. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. And if this is so in literature, the freest of all professions for women, how is it in the new professions which you are now for the first time entering?
ANSWER:I have experienced two very genuine struggles in my professional life. The first of which, killing the "Angel of the House", I believe I solved. She died. But the second, telling the truth about my own experiences as a woman, I doubt that I or any other woman has solved y