Literature is a wide field. That is as too many aspects for research. It has not only romance, poetry but also biography and other aspects that can be studied in different manners in case they are taken into account.
Owing to that, I limited my choice to two aspects of literature, which are “plot and characterization” in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
Indeed, to understand a piece of fiction the reader grasping plot, that is the succession of the different events that the novel develops and the different characters on people who perform or produce those events. It implies that plot and characterization are two techniques which together in literature because they help the reader in providing him with much information in order to get the narrative fiction message.
I have chosen this topic for several reasons among which the first one was to enjoy the pleasure that fiction provides through the succession of events. Also? I was interesting in penetrating how conflicts created by characters are involved.
This manner of resolving conflicts can be compared to that of resolving them in real world.
And I was interested in the way narrative the characters act, react, interact in a narrative and how it interests any reader who feels curious to understand how people from fictional world look like real ones.
The narrative story in to the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf attracted me thanks to the way the narrator arranges series and events in the novel as well as the way the characters act, interact according.
The problem I entend to investigate one is to know why do the characters act, react differently while they are conceived by the same narrator and live in the some society. Also, I need to know what result from the behavior, action, reaction of the characters.
0.6 HYPOTHESIS
0.7RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this study, I will apply the textual approach. This consists of concentrating oneself on the close reading of the novel up to the time the message is understood. This implies the technique of reading and interpretation of the novel will be applied.
In addition to that, internet tools will be used, read other books and theses related to my topic in order to know how to deal with plot and characterization in to the lighthouse. I will also use documentary research. It consists of reading other books and documents about the topic under story.
0.8SCOPE OF THE STUDY
Literature has many aspects that one researcher cannot deal with all those aspects at the same time. He/ she has to choose the interested one. In this narrative story, my attention has been focused on “ plot and characterization” in Virginia Woolf’s to the lighthouse. To understand these two aspects, I have to reavel out the meaning of the novel.
0.9 SIGNIFICENCE OF THE STUDY
This research paper will help people who like literature in general and to those in English studies in particular who will deal with plot and characterization in Virginia Woolf to the lighthouse. This research paper will serve as a source of information for any reader or researcher who is interested in this paper. And it will open his/ her mind how to deal with those aspects.
0.10 SUBDIVISION OF STUDY
This research paper consists of three chapters, a part from the general introduction and general conclusion.
The first chapter will deal with the review of literature.
The second will deal with plot. It develops the succession of narrative events which make up the story.
The third chapter will deal with characterization to the lighthouse it regards characters as individual human beings who act as individual and members of the society through the relationship that they create.