bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in a country-innparlour; dreams which splinter the whole and tear us asunder and wound usand split us apart in the night when we would sleep;
Throughout the chapter the narrator heavily uses similes to describe things. Is there a deeper meaning to the narrator doing this?
nd I shall never be able to crack aman over the head, or tell him he lies in his teeth, or draw my sword andrun him through the body, or sit among my peers, or wear a coronet, orwalk in procession, or sentence a man to death, or lead an army, orprance down Whitehall on a charger, or wear seventy-two different medalson my breast. All I can do, once I setfoot on English soil, is to pourout tea and ask my lords how they like it. D'you take sugar?
Continuing from the previous quote, here we can see examples of how society has given so much more capability to a man compared to a woman that Orlando who was a man at one point, can understand better then most how it feels to have so much power and then sees it being stripped away simply because of a change in gender. Does Orlando regret anything he might've taken for granted as a man and has his view on gender differences changed?
AndifliteratureisnottheBrideandBedfellowofTruth,whatisshe?Confounditall,'hecried,'whysayBedfellowwhenone'salreadysaidBride?Whynotsimplysaywhatonemeansandleaveit?
Orlando is using a metaphor to describe how truth and literature go together like the bedfellow and the bride. Furthermore he also questions why must these two be connected and can't we just say the truth.