160). Orlando suffered an electric shock treatment as her left hand trembled impulsively. Orlando realised that it was because she was not wearing a wedding ring. She rushed away and found a husband which subsided the judgmental sign of an era where every woman should be classified as a widow, wife or virgin (Winterson, 2013).
Orlando experienced a shock when she was catapulted from the nineteenth century into the present moment of 1928. She observed "truncated carriages without any horses", well-lit houses, department stores, radios and aeroplanes (Woolf, 2000, p.205). In the spirit of her time, the shock of the present moment does not delay her for long because "we have no time now for reflections; Orlando was terribly late already. She ran downstairs, jumped into her car, pressed the self-starter and was off" (Sim, 2010). The novel also depicted time with regard to kings and queens. Orlando was a boy at the age of sixteen years in the court of Queen Elizabeth in the sixteenth century at the beginning of the novel. She served beneath James I and Charles II who appointed her as an ambassador to Constantinople. Orlando returned to England which belonged to the eighteenth century King George I or George II near the end of the novel. By the end of the novel, writes Woolf (2000, p.156), at "the twelfth stroke of midnight, Thursday, the eleventh of October, Nineteen hundred and Twenty Eight," Orlando lived in London that was ruled by George V. During the course of the novel queens and kings have gone and come and she lived through the excitement all around the renowned British writers of the centuries such as Pope, Dryden, Carlisle, and Shakespeare.
Woolf depicted the clock as Orlando's adversary and her interior experiences escaped real time. The ringing clock was what repeatedly disrupted her hidden thoughts and Woolf described this disturbance as an attack, as when the clock rings "the news of her deceit" (Woolf, 2000, p.