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In one of her major novels, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf shows in contrast the destructiveness of Mr. Ramsay`s oppressive and authoritative attitude and that Mrs. Ramsay`s submissive self-sacrifice. Mrs. Ramsay is forced to obliterate her self-identity, remain an angel in the house, and finally comes to death and to self-effacement in the egoistic patriarchal society. But Mrs. Ramsay`s death ad resurrection in the consciousness of a woman artist, Lily Briscoe, represents her transformation from a docile wife to a real woman with her independent individuality. Lily, as a single woman with androgynous mind, frees herself from the criticism of female artistic inferiority, and completes her ten-year delayed painting by giving the picture balance and unity, with the epiphany of Mrs. Ramsay in her memory. Woolf`s feminist perspective resists against the male-dominant society and her writing strategy struggles against the existing men`s language, the symbolic universe of the father. They are strongly expressed in Lily`s painting in which she accomplishes her vision not verbally, but by visual representation. Lily`s final diagonal stroke on the canvas stands for the hard-achieved and well-balanced relationship between men and women, going beyond the established realm of men`s language and domination. By representing her vision and wish through the composition, Woolf shows at once the task and dilemma of the women artists working while still confined within the symbolic universe of men`s discourse, and the possibility of putting and alternative for the language of patriarchy. Woolf implies in this novel that the establishment of the female identity precedes or coexists with women`s language.