Urge For Gender Equality In Virginia Woolf’s ‘‘Orlando”

Abstract

Virginia Woolf’s“Orlando” depicts the character of Orlando as a hero who becomes a heroine. This paper aims in bringing the urge for gender equality, gender differences, struggles and conflicts that Orlando underwent as a man as well as a woman. Virginia’s works deals with equality, genderroles, gender perspectives such as self-identity, acceptance in society, their role in public life, day to day life aspects,space in literatures, freedom of liberty in thought, work and action.Gender differences dealt in this paper is about thedifficulties that a person faces in androgyny.This theme of unison gender is a rare area of interest for female writers. Virginia is in par excellence in handling psychic concepts.Women writers have made the most significant contribution in the field of fictionand it is undoubtedly Virginia’s works made the commencement for feminist writers. This paper deals with the turmoil of Orlando for the quest for gender equality and its urge