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David Daiches has pointed out that 'to reach the Lighthouse is, in a sense, to make contact with a truth outside oneself, to surrender the uniqueness of one's ego to an impersonal reality'. The Lighthouse is a symbol of illumination, stability and permanence, as opposed to darkness which symbolises chaos and disintegration. Mrs. Ramsay is identified with the former and her party is a symbol of order in human relationship..