comedies. In both Twelfth Night and As You Like It the action revolves around strong female characters. Both Viola and Rosalind show immense strength‚ courage and power highly uncharacteristic of women in Elizabethan literature. In addition to their strength‚ the women also retain traditional feminine characteristics. Despite their many similar traits‚ many differences can also be found in the characterization of Viola and Rosalind. In the exposition of As You Like It‚ we discover that Rosalind’s father
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If I get an opportunity to replace myself with any one in the world then I would like to replace myself with Mr. Bush‚ the president of America. Mr. Bush is responsible for portraying negative image of America as an enemy of humanity by doing wars against Muslims only on the basis of religious discrimination. Mr. Bush is the murderer of nearly one hundred thousand innocent citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq while trying to fight against only two persons Usama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein on one side
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love‚ one has the ability to feel invincible‚ like one can do or achieve anything‚ as long as they have love by their side. Love also can give one a sense of comfort and belonging in the world. When one completely gives themselves to another‚ and when they love their significant other no matter how many flaws they possess‚ that too is love indeed. Love has to do with tolerance‚ sincerity‚ respect and loyalty towards one another. In Shakespeare’s As You Like It‚ love is a major occurring theme. There
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William Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ is probably one of the most famous pastoral comedies of all times. Written around 1599 and published in 1623‚ its plot was derived from Thomas Lodge’s pastoral romance ‘Rosalynde’. But what is interesting about this play is how Shakespeare‚ using the features and tropes of a pastoral comedy‚ undercuts the idea of the pastoral. The pastoral‚ as a genre‚ can be said to have had its beginnings with Theocritus’ ‘Idylls’. Other notable works in this genre are Virgil’s
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Keyly Ragains Period 2 Mrs. Allen Someone like You Book Report Sarah Dessen is a remarkable young adult author who has written many outstanding books such as This Lullaby and Keeping the Moon. A movie called How to Deal was also made based on her books That Summer and Someone like You. She is thirty-eight years old‚ however somehow‚ she seems to have unique gift where she reads and comes into teenager’s minds. Sarah can understand and feel what teenagers are going through most of the time‚ giving
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Have you ever heard about the book Someone Like You? Someone Like You written by Sarah Dessen is a Young Adult Fiction Novel. The main characters are two friends Halley and Scarlett who both work at Milton’s Market in a small town near the Grand Canyon. One day there was motorcycle accident with Scarlett’s boyfriend and he passes away. Soon after Scarlett finds out that her life will change forever. After the funeral Halley and Scarlett have to go back to school the next day. It was the first
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Task: Describe the place you like the most Purpose: - language: informal - content: describe Audience: My classmates. OUTLINING Topic sentence: On the last summer‚ I have visited my friend in Singapore. I deeply impressed by her house Body: 1 – Geogarphy • North of Singapore • On the Elizabeth street • Next to the Tracy shop. 2 – Total area and first floor • 1500sq • a living room 3 – Second
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Gender Roles in Twelfth Night and As you Like It Much of the comedy in Twelfth Night and As you Like It emerges from Shakespeare’s distortion of traditional gender roles‚ as both plays contain strong female leads who disguise themselves as males. Though both Viola and Rosalind help their less-than-ideal beloveds woo their own objects of desire‚ and both disguises emerge party from the loss of a male familial figure‚ the women inhabit their male facades in drastically different ways. In both plays
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allows her a special kind of freedom. Her disguise was required only so that she could reach the safety of the forest‚ however‚ she chose to keep the disguise and even befriends Orlando‚ who thinks “Ganymede”‚ is actually a teenage boy. Gender‚ in As You Like It‚ is culpable to change. Its fluidity is a result of the effect of one’s surroundings on their character and personality. After Duke Frederick banishes his niece‚ Rosalind‚ for the crime of being her father’s daughter‚ Rosalind and Celia decide
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A lesson that can be found in this novel is that relationships are never perfect‚ and there will always be some sort of problem along the way. You’ll never to be alone because you will have friends to help you go through that problem. In the novel‚ Someone Like You‚ by Sarah Dessen there are two best friends who had relationships that goes down hill. Scarlett dates a boy named Michael‚ and she ends up pregnant. Then Michael dies in a motorcycle accident. Scarlett’s best friend‚ Halley‚ somehow follows
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