《Orlando》——beyond Gender, Toward Freedom

Virginia Woolf (Virginia Woolf), a famous British writer, is one of the world's three major stream of consciousness writers. Her novels and literary criticism have outstanding contributions, while she is also the feminist movement pioneer. Her concern for women, for the fate of women, and for the future prospects of women, has pointed out the way for the next generations of feminist researchers. Since 1960s, with the second wave of women's movement about the rise of feminism, Woolf was revered as a pioneer in the world and she set off an upsurge of research.In her feminist ideas and creation, a number of valuable domestic and foreign academic achievements were born. Woolf's works ,such as "The waves","To the lighehose","Mrs Dalloway",have attracted extra attention and been loved by researchers. But there is a work out of the researchers'sight. This work is "Orlando".This article consists of three chapters, the introduction, body and conclusion parts. The first part summarizes the"Orlando" research status from the scholars in domestic and foreign, and points out the topics of significance. Introduction Summary of domestic and foreign scholars, "Orlando" in research, points out the deficiencies. Although previous studies of gender and over gender perspective analyzed "Orlando" , but the set is not clear. This paper intends to sex, gender, Phase three aspects, "Orlando" in-depth study on men and women in Orlando, the binary opposition of homosexuality and heterosexuality and beyond the binary opposition.The body part is divided into three chapters.Chapter I deals with the Orlando's life experiences changing from a man to a woman, compares the roles of Orlando as a man and a woman in different situations and changes in Orlando. Orlando discourse beyond on the male / female binary opposition. Orlando is a pampered male aristocratic youth, but long-term advantages in material life among depressed. Sex mutations made him lose all pride, but begin to re-examine his own heart. As a woman in the years, Orlando had played a woman struggling to build capacity, and shuttled between a man and a woman freely by pretending.Orlando's transgender story expresses sex (gender) in the construction of social life, and explores that operability of a grown man or woman is not entirely natural, but a result of social construction. Experienced the change of gender, Orlando had developed a unique and profound viewaout gender. He started to pay attention to the flow of heart and eventually to explore their true selves. By Orlando's own experience, we can come to this point: patriarchy not only oppressed of the woman, but also tied the man. Only beyond the stereotypes of traditional gender roles from the liberation of talent, people can break the shackles to find the true self.Chapter II analyzes Orlando's love between men and women, thus pointed out heterosexual / homosexual binary opposition challenge. Orlando loved both Princess Sasha and Captain Charles, and also maintained close relations with a large number of women as allies. Orlando's experience reveals a truth: homosexuality and heterosexuality is not distinctly different between the boundaries, the determinants of sex is not love. Woolf's writing is not intended to eulogize the good gay love, but would love to rise to a higher level - love can transcend gender. Gender is the symbol added above the people, love should be attracted by the hidden human nature, not the gender label.Chapter III discusses from the perspective of real life to explore Woolf's deconstruction of binary oppositions, beyond the gender ideology may realize. This chapter is divided into three sections. The first section, with queer theory and queer contained subversive, deals with the idea of Woolf beyond the gender issue in the works of the times, only the idea of utopia. Section II describes the wave of the feminist movement and the improvement of women's status, to prove that gender boundaries are gradually breaking, gender integration and interaction is an irreversible trend. Section III discusses the wave of feminism after the great changes in society today. After the second wave In the women's movement, the feminist movement and the gay male movement was born and supported. Men and women work together to go against patriarchal oppression. In the efforts of men and women, gender dichotomy prison gradually was broken. In today's society, women and men fight for the same power, while men have begun to set foot in the past that specializes in the areas of women. Ill-defined men and women everywhere in the world today are forming a new social fashion. Heterosexual, homosexual movement broke the natural order of ideas, provided us with the possibility of multiple relationships. Gender norms of human bondage are getting smaller and smaller, Woolf's thought of Utopia, is likely to have the possibility to achieve.Concluding remarks summarize the main thesis, the vlue of "Orlando,"Deconstruction of binary oppositions to break the shackles of gender is not only beyond human sex of Woolf metaphysical thinking, but also an achievable change of gender relations, the promotion of human potential into full play the human ideal. We are looking forward to the future of the world, which doesn't't emphasis on gender label, and people are free to express their individuality in the world. Just as queer theory, the society is not expected in which men oppress women or in which homosexual oppresses heterosexual society. This is a world in which people can truly be liberated to freedom. Everyone will not feel a little depressed because of sex.