Orlando | Themes/Characters
Written as a witty and parodic biography of its protagonist, Orlando, Orlando charts the life and times of its central character from a masculine identity within an Elizabethan Court to a feminine identity in 1928. This novel provides an analysis of the historically constituted subject, and a critique of gender essentialism while it also explores the important issue of gender and creativity. Subjectivity is presented by Woolf as multifaceted and as a multiplicity of conflicting elements. Orlando further reiterates what Woolf sees as the key problematic of sexual politics: the...
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