버지니아 울프의 『막간』에 나타난 창조적 여성의식

Between the Acts, the final novel published shortly after Woolf’s suicide in 1941, reveals the tired inner voice of Isabella Oliver whose age of thirty-nine symbolizes the age of the century just before the Second World War in 1939. This novel shows that the patriarchal society of violence and suppression operates as a mechanism of fascism and a cause of the Second World War. Thus, Woolf presents Isa as a character with potentials of resistance because she has a mature sense of reality, poetic sensibilities as well as sympathy for the others. She also suggests a possibility of equality in the relationship between man and woman through Isa who does not acquiesce in violent masculine heroism. Through a pageant, a historical play, written by Miss. La Trobe, Woolf subverts the values of patriarchal society by parodying English history in the novel. Moreover, Woolf moves on to criticize English civilization poignantly from the past to the present through a new drama by La Trobe, while opening up a possibility for a new social vision.