Orlando

Orlando Figes is a professor of history at the University of London. He has published many books concerning Russian history, such as A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, which received the Wolfson History Prize and other awards as well. Figes has proven to be a very accomplished author, proving the world with comprehensive information about Russian history, which have been translated into more than 20 languages. In his book, Revolutionary Russia, 1981-1991, he provides a…

Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, adapted by Sara Ruhl, explores gender and sexuality as it follows the experiences of a young nobleman, Orlando, who undergoes a sex change. The production took place on May 7th, 2017 at the Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre and was directed by School of Drama faculty member L. Zane Jones and assistant director Tatiana Pavela. This paper observes how Nina Williams-Teramacht portrays two characters, an Archduchess Harriet/ Archduke Harry, and a chorus member. As an…

Every year, around fifty million people visit Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Fifty million people trek across the country to see a giant blue castle that seems to touch the clouds and a human-sized mouse that wears bright red shorts. When I was fourteen, my family and I joined those ranks when we set off on a family vacation down south to the “Sunshine state”. Mine and my little brother’s eyes sparkled with childlike joy as we pulled into the enormous parking lot, and we were fit to burst…

I believe that psychology takes place in the recent event of the Orlando mass-shooting. "Guns kill people" most people say; but I believe that people who were brought up to hate a certain kind of race, gender, sexual orientation and much more, kill people. That guy who shot and killed 50 or so people and injuring just as many, knew what he did was wrong but did it because of what he believed in. He believed that homosexuals should not do what they do (kiss, hold hands, etc...) as it is not what…

Orlando is a story that spans across many ages. We begin in the Elizabethan era and are brought age through age into the 20th century. Even more, the plot is based on a book written by Virgina Woolfe in 1928, yet all the while the theatrical experience of Orlando was constructed barely two decades ago. It plays with the past while remaining aware of the present. Sarah Ruhl's stage adaptation of Orlando is a postmodern exercise in deconstruction. Ruhl removes the veil of time away from Virgina…

left. We were heading to Orlando, Florida. After breakfast, we all split to our cars and began the long fifteen hour drive. On the way there, my cousin, Joey, got rear- ended. My dad, a mechanic at the time, pulled over. But, they were on the other side of the road and with cars whooshing past he wasn’t going to go over there. Everything was alright with the car, so we continued. I’m gonna skip ahead because the rest of the ride was boring. We finally arrived in Orlando, Florida. Because there…

Androgyny in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Ningxin,Sun What is androgyny? It says “Androgyny is the state of being neither distinctly masculine nor distinctly feminine” in the Collins dictionary. In Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928), Orlando was such an androgynous person who was a man at first, then became a woman and eventually, she had both male and female characteristics. Actually, this mind can also be seen in Woolf’s other works,…

form, is “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities” (“Feminism”). Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is a novel that brought attention to feminism during 1928 when feminism was not a topic discussed due to cultural stereotypes and gender roles that limited what males and females could do. In Orlando, her transition does not seem to affect anyone’s view on who Orlando was as a person. Though her physical life changes drastically as she so suddenly changes from a Duke to a…

It’s common for readers and critics of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography to immediately categorize her novel as a loose interpretation of a biography. In fact, analyzers and historians have proved the connections between her novel’s characters, as well as, its events. , The parallelism even stated in the title as a biography. However, it is worth arguing that writing a holiday biography was neither Woolf’s first nor only intention. A thorough analysis presents a theme of sexual ambiguity to…

I live in Orlando. I had everything. Spent money on expensive clothes and shoes, instead of saving the money or spending it more wisely. I’m not a rich person, but I’m not poor either. I also didn’t have a job so when I spent money it didn’t really matter to me because it wasn’t coming from my pocket, but it was coming from my mothers. So as a child I didn’t understand the sacrifice it had to be made to buy something. APURENSEN QUE YA NOS VAMOS! (HURRY UP! WE ARE ALMOST LEAVING) my mom…