Kipling vs. Woolf

Rudyard Kipling and Virginia Woolf, although both English writers, write from completely different perspectives and with completely different intentions. Kipling’s book Kim does not tackle any specific social issues, but instead uses fiction to promote general themes of tolerance and the importance of education. Woolf, on the other hand, has the specific intention of showing the inferior role that women are forced to play in society and the effect that this role has on …

…as colorful, but that is because her book did not serve the same purpose. Woolf concentrates on one aspect of society: the inferior role of women and its effect on female writers. By doing this, she limits the scope of her work, but increases the intensity of her message, and so A Room of One’s Own is not a lesser work than Kim, but it does attack a different and more specific social situation.