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Most of Virginia Woolf's Novels are written with the writing method concerning the Stream of Consciousness. Her works integrates past and present, life and death, fact and vision, which are represented each character's consciousness In To the Lighthouse, Woolf makes Lily Briscoe, a possessor of an object viewpoint and an artistic self. look squarely at the rationality and emotionality of the Ramsays. The aim of this thesis is, from Lily's eyes, to look into the double aspect of life and to investigate how the characters harmonize the duality of life and how they diffuse their harmony to other character's internal life. Through Lily, Mr. Ramsay represents the masculine intelligence, strictness and ego-centric person. His life symbolizes an active life. In other words, Mrs. Ramsay represents the feminine intuition, softness, altruististic thinking. Her life symbolizes a passive life. Lily looks at these dual aspects of life seperately and ununitedly. But Mr. Ramsay, in spite of the symbol of Knowledge, always needs sympathy from his wife. Mrs. Ramsay understands his husband's loneliness and tries to harmonize the masculine intelligence. This ability of Mrs. Ramsay's is completed by the dinner party and the duality is made one during the party. Lily continously understands the harmony and finally finishes her picture after 10 years, when Mrs. Ramsay has already died. Mr. Ramsay and his children succeed in a voyage to the Lighthouse. Lily's picture is the embodiment of the Ramsays' concilation of life, expanded from an individual into the harmonious world of art. Woolf emphasizes that reality is oneness, the unity of two opposite forces. Through Lily's inner voyage, Woolf shows that Lily attains an artistic self by accepting and understanding the two opposite aspects of life of the Ramsays.