... of wit and satire. She discharges her duty as a woman, marries one Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and bears a son in the Edwardian age. In the twentieth century, Shelmerdine returns from his voyage and Orlando's poem The Oak Tree is completed and published. Orlando's journey to find life and love is an experience to discover him/herself. Not only being a fictional incarnation of ... (P97) Here Virginia Woolf "look beyond the personal and political relationships to the wider questions which poet tries to solve-of our destiny and the meaning of line" (Woman and Fiction, P8), achieves tr...

• Word Count: 3885
• Approx Pages: 16

... Senior. Orlando, however, is proud of who he is and expresses this to the young women. Rosalind gives him a chain to wear around his neck. The women leave and Le Beau enters giving praise but warns Orlando that he should leave. Orlando consents but asks which of the women is the Duke's daughter. Orlando leaves and is happy that he has fallen in love with ... Rosalind.In the third scene Celia asks Rosalind what is on her mind, but at ... makes fun of her because he thinks she is making up verses about herself. Celia, too, enters bearing a poem from a tree and the girls discuss who could...

• Word Count: 3271
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School