Orlando
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Paper Topic: Nature vs. Art in Orlando and Still Life With
Woodpecker
Orlando and Still Life With Woodpecker are two works that express the beauty of living by including various comparisons to art, modernism, and the overall idea of life with art and nature. The dichotomy of nature vs. art is defined in both of these works in differing ways. In Still Life With Woodpecker, Princess Leigh-Cheri acknowledges art and nature through her comparisons of everyday items and sexual remarks, however, in Orlando, the art vs. nature argument is enforced through the comparisons of actual nature and the environment and through poetry and lifestyle.
Orlando explores and falls in love with nature after realizing that he can not fall in love with, or depend on the opposite sex. After resenting the way that he has been treated in various situations with women, he decides that the only love he can have is with his surroundings. After the transformation to the female sex, Orlando learns to depend on the love of nature, asking Nature to "be her bride." When Orlando was amongst the gypsies, she began to love nature more and more, taking advantage of its beauty, for it was all she had...