... her works she celebrates and criticizes the Bloomsbury values of aestheticism, feminism and independence. Moreover, the stream of consciousness technique allows the subjective mental processes of her characters to determine the objective content of the narrative". /www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/ToLighthouse10.asp/ Mental illnesses dominated Woolf's life and it made an impact on her novels as well. She was only twenty-two when both of her parents died and after she was prone to emotional breakdowns and to terrible headaches. By the time of writing To the Lighthouse Woolf had been over a suicide attempt, she threw herself out of a window. Following the death of her parents she was suffering from hallucinations and fears created by the loss of her mother. "She declares herself guilty in losing her mother because she was an egoist, she failed to prove her love, she was lazy and gluttonous". (Bécsy 27) "The novel represents Woolf's own struggle to ...

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