Orlando a Biography

1. •Hiral Kashyap
•Gmail : hkg779@gmail.com
•Paper 106 : 20th century literature (1)
•Subject : Gender in “ ‘ orlando ’ a biography ”
•Department of English , Bhavnagar
•Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. ‘ ORLANDO ’ : A
BIOGRAPHY
THEME : GENDER IN “ ‘ ORLANDO ’ : A
BIOGRAPHY ”

3. ‘DIFFERENT SEX. SAME PERSON’
• Woolf focuses on gender as a main issue in the novel.
Orlando doesn’t have a fixed gender and shifts from
male to female. Orlando notices how it is harder to be
a female than to be a male because of the limitations
imposed on females. But being a male is not perfect
either because males, as Orlando describes them, are
driven by the desire to climb the social ladder and are
not able to openly show their emotions. The way the
narrator describes the differences between the two
genders is a realistic one, and she doesn’t favor a

4. S/HE IS A WO/MAN
•1 Womanly Man
•2 manly woman
•3 Being

5. WOMANLY MAN

6. MANLY WOMAN

7. BEING

8. CONCLUSION
•Orlando he / she vacillates
between two sexes . He may be
physically man but inside his
mind could be the opposite of
surface , and vice versa .
Orlando is simply a being , the
union of man and woman

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Joyce". S. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
• Virginia Woolf's Feminist Historiography in Orlando". Critical
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