ORLANDO
Chapter 1
16 years old / 18 years old
Elizabethan time ( England16th Century)
Nobleman
Physical Description
Sharply legs, handsome body, well set shouldes, red cheeks, short nose, dark hair, eyes like drenched violets
Love of Nature
Trifle Clumsy
Love of solitude
Court at Whitehall (Queen Elizabeth)
Wrapped in grey cloak (to hide the star at his neck and the garter at his knee)
To hide nobility and blend with the lower classes
Chapter 2
After the winter of the Great Frost
Exiled from Court
Morning 18th of June
Sleeping for a week
Puzzled by the events of the last 6 months
Death and decay obsession
Crypt of the estate where 10 generations of ancestors lay
25 yeras old
47 plays, histories, romances, poems (in French and in Italian)
"Oak Tree"
Symbolic for Orlando´s identity
Parallelism between immortability and writing
Words will be immortal
30 years old
Consummed with depression and pain
17th Century - King Charles
Orlando as Ambassador in Constantinople
Chapter 5
Victorian Era (19th Century)
Oppressivnes of the age´s values and moral
Women oppression
Marriage at the age of 15
18 children
Little opportunities for women
The "Spirit of the Age" - Orlando´s identity
Crinoline
Bassinette
"The Oak Tree" - Orlando´s identity
300 years old -
Time to make an end
Many changes but fundamentally same IDENTITY
A gloomy boy
In love with death
Amorous and florid
sprightly and satirical
Prose - drama
The "Spirit of the Age" - Negative impact on Orlandos´s writing
Inicially unable to write - Then dull and unispired
Orlando´s negative view of Victorian literature
Orlando´s time on the ground in the park
Evidence of the connection to nature - Orlando´s identity
Experience - similar to the one of her week-long sleeps
Shel´s effeminate behaviour makes him appear womanly - Orlando´s masculine qualities makes her appear more manly
Neither Orlando nor Shel, have traditional notions about gender and sexuality
Chapter 4
18th Century
Orlando - Skirt / Dress
Power of clothing to construct gender
Plaguey things
Artificial and constructed representation of gender
"The other sex"
Orlando is not entirely one sex or the other
"Ignorant and poor we are compared with the other sex"...
Orlando finds the truth in being a woman
The Oak Tree
She writes and hides the manuscript
Orlando and Archduke Harry
Fly Loo (game)
Orlando is not ashamed of taking the Archduke´s money or of cheating and deceiving him
Chapter 3
Orlando in Constantinople
Depressed - alone with his dogs
Identity
Sleeping induced transformation
Type of death
Different SEX - Same IDENTITY
Identity
Lady of Purity
Lady of Chastity
Lady of Modesty
Close connection with NATURE
GOD