understanding of a detail

Alexzander 2022-03-24 09:03:49

In the "Poetry" section, Orlando consults a poet. The poet mentioned that aristocrats and wealthy people could not understand the attitudes of people living in poverty and predicament. Orlando, as the leader of a kingdom, caters with ambiguity and respect.

After Orlando changed her gender, her social status changed dramatically because she was personally labeled as a "female" - she went from the ruler of a kingdom to an ordinary "woman" spurned by a kingdom.

Orlando thus becomes a member of the disadvantaged in a society that views male rulers as aristocrats.

At this time, she may be able to understand the deep meaning of what the poet said at that time.

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Extended Reading
  • Caterina 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    The chapters are still a bit clumsy, and the changing times and the road to awakening are not firmly tied. A few moments are amazing, Orlando talks to Shelmerdine, the camera swings back and forth between the sexes, the exchange of consciousness; the next scene is staring at each other after sex, the meeting of bodies. Afterwards, Orlando is not following a certain right path given by Shelmerdine, "I choose" is more important than "Should", very powerful.

  • Reva 2022-03-24 09:03:49

    At the beginning, the camera moves in the opposite direction of Orlando, suggesting his other identity. ta is a personal grand narrative, and history becomes a flowing five-act drama narrative. The chaste queen's "Don't Wither" is both a blessing and a curse. She couldn't get the person she wanted when she was young, and she had to watch the European consciousness she represented in the becoming-woman gradually expose its feminist problems, and gradually move towards the era of fading aura, but "O" He gives a Nietzschean reconstruction, leading to postmodernity and to the "regain" of male independent personality by feminism.

Orlando quotes

  • Shelmerdine: I've been abroad. But east.

    Orlando: Then you know as well as I, how good it is to travel. Like a free spirit. Unfettered by position or possession.

    Shelmerdine: Unfettered.

  • Archduke Harry: Are you - an adventurer by profession?

    Orlando: My profession, if you can call it that, is the pursuit of liberty. Like the bright shade - of some immortal dream, which walks when tempus sleeps.

    Archduke Harry: The wave of life's dark stream.