Rewrite, or “translate,” a large paragraph from virginia woolf’s a room of one’s own. instead of writing in the same style as woolf, however, use formal, conventional language. you must not, however, change the original meaning. finally, write a few sentences about the differences between your “translation” and the original woolf passage. your assignment should include the following elements: a complete rewrite of a large paragraph from chapter 3 of virginia woolf’s a room of one’s own in your own words. a style and tone that are significantly more conventional, formal, and objective. a short paragraph that explains the major differences between woolf’s original paragraph and your rewritten paragraph.

The adaptation is based on the paragraph 5 of the chapter 3 of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own:

It was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,  in a kitchen chopping up suet. But these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. What one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,  thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. The moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.  One knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.  Hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.  And i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.  I hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

I basically used formal words, expressions, verb conjugations used in the early modern english, in order to sound more like formal.

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explanation:

mrs. mallard has a heart condition, which means that if she's startled she could die. so, when news comes that her husband's been killed in an accident, the people who tell her have to cushion the blow.

mrs. mallard's sister josephine sits down with her and dances around the truth until mrs. mallard finally understands what happened. the deceased mr. mallard's friend, richards, hangs out with them for moral support.

richards originally found out because he had been in the newspaper headquarters when a report of the accident that killed mr. mallard, which happened on a train, came through. richards waited for proof from a second source before going to the mallards' to share the news.

when mrs. mallard finds out what happened she acts differently from most women in the same position, who might disbelieve it. she cries passionately before deciding to go to her room to be by herself.

in her room, mrs. mallard sits down on a comfy chair and feels completely depleted. she looks out the window and looks out at a world that seems alive and fresh. she can see the sky coming between the rain clouds.

mrs. mallard sits still, occasionally crying briefly like a kid might.

the narrator describes her as youthful and pretty, but because of this news she looks preoccupied and absent.

she seems to be holding out for some kind of unknown news or knowledge, which she can tell is approaching.

mrs. mallard breathes heavily and tries to resist before succumbing to this unknown thing, which is a feeling of freedom.

acknowledging freedom makes her revive, and she doesn't consider whether she should feel bad about it.

mrs. mallard thinks to herself about how she'll cry when she sees her husband's dead body and how much he loved her. even so, she's kind of excited about the chance to make her own decisions and not feel accountable to anyone.

mrs. mallard feels even more swept up by the idea of freedom than the fact that she had felt love for her husband.

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