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To the lighthouse lily briscoe7/5/2023 In defiance of social convention, Briscoe chooses to remain unmarried. Her daughter, Prue, for example, anticipates her coming marriage while visitor Lily Briscoe looks forward to her career as a painter. She also sees to the needs of other family members and guests, who have lighthouses of their own - metaphorical ones - to preoccupy them. Ramsay (Rosemary Harris) comforts the child. In a moment of dramatic irony, the self-centered father scolds the boy for always thinking only of himself. His father Michael Gough refuses to go (and, thus, no one goes) because the weather isn't right. James, six - a brat to his father but a dear to his mother - repeatedly asserts his wish to visit a lighthouse on an island within easy rowing distance. In conversations in the summer house, at the beach, during strolls, and at cricket and wrestling matches, the characters reveal their beliefs, their prejudices, and their longings in an era when old traditions are dying and new traditions are quickening. Like the Virginia Woolf novel which it interprets, this 1983 BBC production has three parts: "The Window," "Time Passes," and "The Lighthouse." The first focuses on one day in the life of the Ramsay family - the father and mother, their eight children, and four guests - while they vacation on the Cornwall peninsula in remote southwestern England.
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