... adaptation of Orlando very much begins, as it ends, as a story of personal development and ultimate freedom. Orlando is introduced as a sensitive young man, more at home in his pastoral setting, who simply craves another. The introductory female voiceover is interrupted by the character himself at the moment of pronominal identification: "But when he- that is, I" ... the same, common understanding of the "classic" to legitimate radically opposed interpretations of the novel (and the film). Thus, "the classic" functions as the discursive equivalent of Alice's "tiny golden key" in Wonderla...

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