Clothing
Clothing symbolizes the artificiality of gender as a social construction in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, and it often serves to obscure one’s true gender identity, which the novel suggests naturally vacillates between both male and…
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“The Oak Tree” and the Oak Tree
“The Oak Tree” is the poem that Orlando writes for nearly 300 years in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, and it represents Orlando’s identity as poet and his—later, her—growth as a writer and a person throughout…
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Dogs
Virginia Woolf mentions dogs repeatedly throughout Orlando, and they are symbolic of Orlando’s deep connection to nature within the novel. Orlando’s connection to nature is central to his—later, her—identity, and this connection is…
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