Orlando
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By Virginia Woolf, and and, Tilda Swinton
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Moving in and out of three centuries and from one gender to the other, this is Virginia Woolf’s tribute to Vita Sackville-West. By choosing his/her own sexual identy, Orlando is able to triumph over anatomy and chronology, and Woolf was able to tease out assumptions for biographical writing.
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In her most light-hearted, exuberant novel, Virginia Woolf writes the life of Orlando, a young boy of nobility during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Through four centuries, the novel shows Orlando aging, somehow, only thirty-six years between 1588 and 1928. More significantly, he also changes from a man to a woman. As she explores Orlando's lifespan, Woolf also explores the differing roles of men and women in society during various periods through history.
The ultimate conclusion we draw is that one's role in society - as a man or woman - is determined by society itself rather than your sex. A great feminist work about about gender construction.
