Mr. Tansley In Virginia Woolf's To The Lighhouse

Most modernist noveles are more or less another artistical way of portraying social figures, contemporary idols and human typology. Virginia Woolf is a great artist of this kind and most of the characters in To the Lighhouse represent an unique model or a human prototype from an intelectual and behavioral point of view. Most of the scenes are descriptive but we can analyse characters from the introspections of their mind, thoughts and human interactions.

Charles Tansley is a young philosopher who is invited to spend some time with the Ramsay family on the Isle of Skye, as a spiritual jurney guided by Mr. Ramsay. Despite any instinct that would influence you to believe that Charles is an unpleasant man who is suffering from deep insecurities regarding his social status and humble background, Mr. Tansley can be seen as a positive element in the novel.

Charles is moslty a rough, younger mirror version of the more complex and representative Mr. Ramsey. He has high aspirations and has worked hard all his life and payed his own way through education and maturity since he was 13 years old.

He appears to be a man with rough edges but despite the comunicational bluntness and aparently minor role in the novel, Mr. Tansley represents an important part in the

In other words, Charles just forms a perfect leverage not only for Mr. Ramsay but for most of the characters in such a way that reveals the better in others. Some of the more important traits of Tansley’s character are clearly revealed during the course of the dinner party. As an embodiment of selfishness, he keenly desires that all conversations are centered around him. However, Mrs. Ramsay, with her sympathetic nature, is always ready to twist a fact to save others from disappointment and she is correct in her understanding that Tansley wants to assert himself and so it will be always with him till he conquers his