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ORLANDO

Orlando, a book and a movie review.

Orlando was published in 1928, 10 years after as a young woman in 1928 (the year when the

WHEN 40% of British women gained the right right to vote was granted to all British women
to vote in England and almost 40 years before over the age of 21).
homosexuality was legalized in England. The

book was adapted into a movie by writer “Who am I and what do I want to do?” This is
and director Sally Potter in 1992. Woolf wrote what we ask ourselves throughout our lives. It
Orlando for her lover Vita Sackville-West, an is also the question Orlando seeks the answer
aristocrat who could not inherit the family to. Gender fluidity is one of the main themes of
estate Knole because it had to pass to a male the novel. After he changed gender, Orlando

heir by law. According to Vita Sackville’s son, realizes who she is and that her goals have not
this book is a love letter from Virginia to Vita. changed, the answers to the known question
The protagonist of the book, Orlando, is are still the same, or there are still question

actually Vita Sackville and the book is, in a marks on the same topics. Woolf shows by
way, a biography of her life. Orlando’s story this that gender does not define who we are,
begins as a young nobleman in Elizabethan but merely helps us express ourselves. At the
England and ends three hundred years later same time, she examined what it means to

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