Gender in Orlando

The character of Orlando stands in front of a mirror and we see her obviously female form reflected back. But the film Orlando, named after its main character, is more than half over, and up till now Orlando has not just portrayed a man, but has been a man. And as she, for Orlando is undoubtedly she, looks at her own reflection in the glass, she quips, “Same person - no difference at all. Just …showed first 75 words of 1521 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1521 total…Waites end their article “Unclothing Gender: The Post-modern Sensibility in Sally Potter’s Orlando” by stating, “Only in death or in art can Orlando’s self-conscious, self-fashioned, multi-gendered subjectivity fully evade the cultural strictures that fix gender identity” (114). And since the majority of us lack a sense of real androgyny, we will have to shout our words a little louder, and make our actions a little broader to have them stand out beyond the obvious.