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Questions on Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse and Chinua Achebe 's Things Fall Apart

2 . The Freudian concept of the Oedipus complex tries to explain childhood behaviors , whereby children get attracted to their parents of the opposite sex . In boys it takes place during the phallic stage , at about three ages , when they become sexually fixated about their mothers The sexual attraction to their mothers makes them to resent the father because he is seen as a rival . In Woolf 's novel To the

Lighthouse , the Oedipus complex is portrayed by James Ramsey , who admires her mother Mrs . Ramsey . He resents his father and interprets his actions as intended to hurt him , such as when he says that they will not go the lighthouse . He later on acquires his father 's characters , explained by Freud as an attempt to be like the father so as to rival his attractiveness to the mother

3 . Mr . Ramsey 's character makes him a philosopher as well as a romantic in different ways . As a philosopher , he is conscious of the futility of human achievements . He believes that all things are ephemeral and nothing stays forever . His thinking is somehow logical and progressive like letters , which ultimately stops at point `Z '- the conclusion that there is an end to everything . This is why he is so much concerned by the possibility that his philosophy will be forgotten by future generations . He seems to be aware that like the...