The Relationship between Lily Briscoe and Mrs Ramsay in "To the Lighthouse".

Examine the Relationship between Lily Briscoe and Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse.

She shooked the literary modernism Nobel world with stream of consciousness, she is none but faminist Writer Virginia Woolf, written her1927 novel To the Lighthouse.A novel of burning sensation to create a painting into mind canvas and after to the finishing touches on the real clothing canvas to show female can paint one's life phenomenonly.It was a question is Mr Tansley to Lily Briscoe,the woman can neither paint nor write.Lily Briscoe and Mrs Ramsay are the example of feminism and mixed to each other into one remarkable painting through the symbol of Lighthouse.

Mrs Ramsay and Lily Briscoe's relationship is first introduced artistically.Lily has been working on painting,a picture of Mrs Ramsay. She is always distracted by her role as a mother and the painting always slips Mrs Ramsay's mind as being unimportant but this trivial thing is best of Lily's life painting of Mrs Ramsay.

And one part is very interesting that Mrs Ramsay and Lily Briscoe was as foils because they are occupy opposite sides of the question, Vergina Woolf is interest in Lily briscoe, actually finds a lot of inspiration in Mrs Ramsay become a kind of spiritual mother for Lily briscoe, in a way that contrast interestingly with Mrs Ramsay with James.

Mrs Ramsay's descriptive language about Lily is very derogatory. Despite the fact that she supposedly likes Lily. Lily is affected by the descriptions of her facial features; men will not want to marry someone that looks like Chinese. She is described as a 'Creature' almost like a pet, a person that Mrs Ramsay is supposed to be human but not take seriously. Lily does not need to play roles but given an immortal picture to all while Mrs Ramsay was not alive still Mili afforded the time to paint Mrs Ramsay's silly pictures that no one takes seriously.

Ironically, Lily knows that Mrs Ramsay has not gone nor has she faded. She is the ghost lingering behind while the others finally make their trip to the Lighthouse. She is the one who watches as Lily completes her painting. At times the ghost is silent , other times memories flowed freely through Lily's mind as she tries to remember the specific shape of images in her painting. Despite Lily's need to stand up to Mrs Ramsay, a tribute to the astonishing power that Mrs Ramsay had over one . She recognised the title miracles of life that Mrs Ramsay gave to her family.

Lily owns Mrs Ramsay's credit for helping her to teach these revelations about life. Lily and Mrs Ramsay seemed to share a love or hate relationship. She did not hate each other in the traditional sense of words. Mrs Ramsay disliked how Lily was too free thinking and revolutionary in her ideas. Lily disliked how Mrs Ramsay constantly conformed to society. In the end, two women created a type of balance of harmony in which they were able to see the significant high points of life through the other's eyes. Their colourful points of view made life meaningful,they found the beauty through each other that other people in their life constantly seek.

By the end of the Nobel, Lily finally realises how much Mrs Ramsay meant to her as she begins to cry. She doesn't even understand why she is crying, 

" was she crying then for Mrs Ramsay without being aware of any unhappiness?" 

Lily cannot have her final vision of life, her final epiphany , without Mrs Ramsay, " No matter how much she cries, she will not bring Mrs Ramsay Back To Life"

Lisa Ruddick explains that Lily's painting and had trouble with recognising Mrs Ramsay's death, becomes the final climax of the novel: " She must bring Mrs Ramsay back to the realm of the living; draw the distant, visionary picture. She has to take her into the new world of fact". So, we draw the conclusion that it is a relation of mother and child; a girl and woman inner thought, a mind artist and artistic figure, a magician and the ghost power.