Orlando’s Pursuit of Love - Reread Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando: A Biography -

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This paper primarily concerns the love affairs of Orlando. There are four main characters with whom Orlando has unpleasant love affairs. They are Queen Elizabeth I, Sasha, Archduchess Harriet who later turns out to be Archduke Harry and Shel. After the failure of his love with the first three people, Orlando experiences several big shocks, and then changes gender from male to female to start a new life. Woolf praises the androgynous feature of human being by the experience of Orlando. However, male Orlando is childish; female Orlando is more mature than before. Woolf displays that it is better to be a woman than a man. Although she admires the androgynous characteristic of people, she shows her comparative dislikeof man and sympathy for woman. Orlando gets married with Shel, but she feels her life seems to be like death especially when he leaves her to sail for ever. Yet, Orlando does not give up. The pursuit of love andlife is eternal. The main theme of this novel is that after undergoing many adventures, Orlando grows up to become a mature creature. She finally transforms herself into a modern liberated woman writher at the end of the novel.
2010-03-31