Crazy And Its Metaphors

Virginia Woolf was one of the most famous novelists in the twentieth century. She was really significant to British literary world and the research on her has never been stopped, including her idea and works. However, most of the research was focus on novelistic theory, creative practice and feminism. Only a few of them were focus on her madness. As is known to us, Woolf was a serious mental patient and suffered from the illness all the time. Finally, she committed suicide in 1941. Madness is a "otherness" of normal society in western culture. It runs through the whole life of Woolf and its metaphorical meaning can not be ignored.This thesis mainly analyzed Virginia Woolf's madness in culture. Text perusal and image research was used to explain her madness based on the western feminism.Firstly, the madness was researched on the western madness background to discuss the meaning and rheological history. Secondly, representative biography texts and commentary texts at home and abroad, as well as madness texts in Woolf s diary and novels, were cleaned up to discover different representations fountainhead and of madness. Western representative biography on madness and texts on gender madness were profoundly discussed to disclose the relationship between madness and women.Finally, the metaphorical meaning of madness was explored to seek the truth behind the madness. The complexity of madness was depicted from two different aspects to relate the madness with women and women's composition.