Throughout the history of mankind we can see how the conventions and traditions of our culture and society changed. One of the basic changes of the history is the shifts in gender roles. I would like analyze sex and gender changes in two remarkable British texts. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and George Eliot’s “The Lifted Veil” reveal the problematic question of what it means to be a woman or a man. Both texts represent gender identities in a different way. My reason of why I selected these texts is that the protagonists do not accept the limitations of their gender, and their identity’s development is due to their feminine and masculine side