Protrusion of Simon de Beauvoir, A Propelled Portrayal of Feminism in Orlando on Elizabethan Epoch
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It is a stiff known fact that in chauvinistic society, a female has been taken as a suppressed commodity. The ultimate dependence is the main factor in the marginalization of females in society. Although, in a country where the female population is more than men’s, such topics of female subjugation can be traced from the shared history. This study aims at the various factors through which the main character of the movie and novel “Orlando” has gone through the acute transformation from a weaker position to being in command and strong. This paper is based on the qualitative methodology and it will probe traces through which the protagonist is viewed through the lens of Simon de Beauvoir’s Second Sex and gender differences (Beauvoir, 1993). Complete analysis in terms of the body language from being submissive to outrageous, from vulnerable to gaining strength, this research will significantly try to scan all the aspects through which a character is transformed. This paper will also try to probe the socio-psychological factors through which an individual suffers through the anguish (Ranjan, 2019 ). The protagonist's anguish has been depicted and will be analyzed in the light of famous feminist theorist Simon de Beauvoir's “The Second Sex” (Beauvoir, 1976). While engaging and clashing for the dependability this investigation likewise examines the complexities agonized over the opportunity of enunciation of the protagonist from the two portrayals that are film and text. This examination will open vistas to contemplate the grievance forced by the financial components that pressurises a person, as far as possible, where one has to decide between giving up or revolting against the shackles of society. By the execution of Beauvoir's idea on the screen transformation of "Orlando" composed by Virginia Woolf (Woolf, 1993), the spitting image of women in Elizabethan civilization and her insurrection is illustrated. This paper is a significant effort to highlight the cobwebs encapsulating an individual and their strife to survive and breathe in the same existing world.
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