On the Ambiguity in Virginia Woolf's Novel To the Lighthouse from the Perspective of Dual Narrative Procession

The characteristic of ambiguity in the novels of the modernist, Virginia Woolf has always been a focus of attention, and the ambiguity in her works has achieved Woolf's aesthetic art and political concerns. This paper finds that the overt plot of Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse contains contradiction between anti-patriarchy and nostalgia for the Victorian era, while the incompatibility of the text hides the covert progression of modern nostalgia. The reasons for the emergence of the ambiguity of dual narrative dynamics are related to the writer's rich creative intentions, Woolf’s reader concepts, and free indirect discourse and other ambiguous elements. At the same time, this paper points out that dual narrative progression is an important part of the ambiguity in Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse. It depends and promotes with other ambiguous elements. Therefore, re-examining the ambiguity in To the Lighthouse from the perspective of dual narrative progression can not only reveal the literary value of Woolf's works more deeply but also help to explore the poetics of ambiguity in modernist novels.