you like it------------------------shakespeare comedy------------------------- Act 3‚ Scene 4 | Original Text | Modern Text | | Enter ROSALIND and CELIA | ROSALIND and CELIA enter. | | ROSALINDNever talk to me. I will weep. | ROSALINDDon’t talk to me. I’m going to cry. | | CELIADo‚ I prithee‚ but yet have the grace to consider that tears do not become a man. | CELIAGo ahead if you want‚ but remember that crying doesn’t suit a man. | | ROSALINDBut have I not cause to weep? | ROSALINDBut
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Gender in As You Like It One of the most intriguing aspects of the treatment of love in As You Like It concerns the issue of gender. And this issue‚ for obvious reasons‚ has generated a special interest in recent times. The principal reason for such a thematic concern in the play is the cross dressing and role playing. The central love interest between Rosalind and Orlando calls into question the conventional wisdom about men’s and women’s gender roles and challenges our preconceptions about these
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life that ultimately end in a catastrophe (Hacht). Critics argue that the ambiguity that surrounds the cause of the lovers’ deaths generates the play into an apprentice tragedy. Often‚ Romeo and Juliet is considered an experimental tragedy because Shakespeare breaks away from the traditional patterns of what makes a tragic play. In contrast‚ Critics have proposed three ways to interpret Shakespeare’s plot in Romeo and Juliet. One method is looking at the events that take place as a helpless display of
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Shakespeare’ As You Like It: Effective Use of Sound In Jacques’ Speech As infamous as Shakespeare is‚ and as well known as his works are‚ some prose are just simply more extraordinary than the rest. There are many ways to look at Jacques speech‚ such as use of language or imagery yet‚ something we often do not reflect on is the sound of the prose. When reading this particular speech‚ the subject is directly related to the sounds Shakespeare has chosen. We are guided gracefully through the stages
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As You Like It - the Play As You Like It is considered by many to be one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies‚ and the heroine‚ Rosalind‚ is praised as one of his most inspiring characters and has more lines than any of Shakespeare’s female characters. Rosalind‚ the daughter of a banished duke falls in love with Orlando the disinherited son of one of the duke’s friends. When she is banished from the court by her usurping uncle‚ Duke Frederick ‚ Rosalind switches genders and as Ganymede travels with
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Orlando is united with Rosalind‚ Oliver with Celia‚ Silvius with Phebe and Touchtone with Audrey. It is expected that these pairs of lovers will lead a mature‚ balanced and suitable life. In ‘As You Like It’ Shakespeare takes different aspects of love between lovers and between the friends. Shakespeare has borrowed the cliché of “love at first sight” from Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander’ (“whoever loved who loved not at first sight”). Rosalind is banished by her uncle. She comes to the forest of Arden
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identity and notions of self for an individual both positively and negatively. Through the texts “As You like It” by William Shakespeare and “Jude the Obscure”‚ a Thomas Hardy novel‚ the abstract ideology towards belonging can be derived. Exploration of how the denaturing of the family structure can impinge attitudes towards belonging and shape the ramifications
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Belonging is a fundamental human need in As You Like It‚ which Shakespeare deals with through the central aspects of belonging to place and relationships. In As You Like It people’s connection to the court and nature are contrasted‚ as the court is a place of corruption and the forest a place of harmony. The characters experience exclusion and a disconnection from the court‚ so come to find happiness and acceptance in the forest. Shakespeare explores the relationships to friends‚ family and love
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1. As you like it is full of characters pretending to be someone other than themselves. To what degree are the characters aware that they are role-playing? Does their acting have serious consequences‚ or is it merely a game. In the text as you like it by William Shakespeare many characters have alter egos in whom they use to influence and associate themselves with other characters. The two main characters that are pretending to be someone other than themselves are Celia and Rosalind. In act
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Jacques’ remark “and that they call complement‚ was like t’counter of two dog-apes” depict his willingness to purposely alienate himself from the courtiers and Duke. The canine animalistic references and connotations illustrate his disaccord with Duke Seniors ideals of belonging to an established community. “If the duke hath put on a religious life and thrown into neglect the pompous court”. Jacque mocks the ideals established within the court‚ choosing to isolate himself from the rest of the
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