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Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to investigate man-woman relationship in Virginia Woolf’s novels, in the light of Simone de Beauvoir’s theory of immanence. This theory highlights the historical, physiological, psychological and the economical differences between men and women upon which the patriarchal society implants the idea of the other. Beauvoir believes that woman is oppressed to the point where transcendence is no longer possible. Women also denied access to an autonomous existence, confined themselves to a marginalized position in society according to which they are made to support the male interests. Beauvoir claims women’s freedom in order to get rid of the origins and the perpetuation of the patriarchal oppression of women. But freedom will never be given; it will always have to be won. This thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is entitled The Theory of Immanence: Woman as Other. In this chapter, the researcher investigates the differences between transcendence and immanence in both Beauvoir’s and Sartre’s philosophies in order to explain this relationship between men and women, such a relationship in which man puts himself forward as the subject, dooming woman to that conflict between her fundamental aspiration to regain her selfhood and the compulsions of that situation through which the patriarchy gives her a subordinate position. The second chapter is entitled Woman’s Adolescence in The Voyage Out. This chapter deals with the life of Rachel, the protagonist, and her voyage towards adulthood, and how it culminates in ignorance, fear of sex, violent and nightmarish delirium, as the crisis of the adolescence in a woman’s life adds a lot to her misery. Chapter three is entitled Mrs. Dalloway: The Married Woman and it deals with different types of repressions that women encounter within marriage. Those poor wives in this novel are thrown into a frameless world in which they are not allowed to manifest themselves. They work only as the shadows of their husbands. Chapter four is entitled, The Mother versus The Independent Woman in To The Lighthouse in which the researcher represents two different types of women through the characters of Mrs. Ramsey and the painter Lily Briscoe. The contradiction between them is very apparent, while the first woman represents complete surrender to the compulsions of her society, the other desires for self assertion and reciprocity. Then the thesis is ended with Conclusion that contains Beauvoir’s suggestions to solve such problems.