Virginia Woolf asks herself the following: “Why is illness not one of the major themes in literature, like love, struggle or jealousy?”. One of the major obstacles to the inclusion of illness as a theme would be the language itself. English, she says, would be taken aback to know how to evoke “chills and headaches”. In short, we lack the right words to talk about it. Finally, for Virginia, it was the experience of the illness itself that made her incommunicable.