Critical Literary Studies Vol. VI, No. 1, Series 11 Autumn and Winter 2023-2024 1 mmarandi@ut.ac.ir 2 zramin@ut.ac.ir 3 f.yahyapoor@ut.ac.ir Seyyed Mohammad Marandi (Corresponding Author) 1 Professor of English Literature and Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Zohre Ramin 2 Associate Professor of English Literature and Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Fatima Sadat Yahyapoor 3 Ph.D. Candidate of English Literature and Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22034/cls.2023.62856 Article Type: Original Article Page Numbers: 1-18 Received: 17 April 2022 Accepted: 15 June 2023 The debates concerning Orlando’s magical sex transformation and its main concern with gender trouble are ever growing. Yet it seems a very significant fact is neglected in this debate, the extent the male Orlando is different from the female. Till Orlando is a man, he holds a very rigid and sedentary view of gender roles and reproduces the old cliché about men and women. As soon as he becomes a woman, she starts to view the world in a nomadic distribution. The present paper uses Deleuze’s theory of time and his notions of sedentary and nomadic to represent how time and sex transformation are connected to a split subjectivity and the birth of a new female subject/artist. The sex transformation is a tremendous event that splits Orlando into a before and an after. The male Orlando is not equal to "the act" which is to go beyond the spirit of his age and become an artist who is able to affirm androgynous and nomadic worldview. Through "becoming woman" Orlando abandons his sedentary view of the world and becomes nomadic and at last, completes her poem "The Oak Tree". Through metamorphosis and a split subjectivity, Orlando becomes equal to "the act". Sedentary; Nomadic; Metamorphosis; Split Subjectivity; Becoming-Woman. 1. Introduction Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), daughter of Leslie Stephan and Julia Prinsep Jackson, was a great modernist writer in Britain. She spent her childhood in 22 Hyde Park Gate, London where she was exposed to “her formative, blissful, experience of hearing waves and a window blind moving” (Goldman 4) that became a recurrent image in her oeuvre. Her mother’s death in 1895 had an everlasting impact on Woolf who “suffered her first breakdown” (6) and had to deal with it for the rest of her life. After her father’s death in 1904, the family moved to Bloomsbury where she became a part of