In response‚ William Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy “As You Like It” asserts that one must not compromise their identity for acceptance. Similarly Theodore Roethke’s poem‚ “In a Dark time”‚ accentuates the need for an individual to first establish their own identity and shape their own sense of belonging to attain freedom and happiness away from the constricting mores of society. A holistic sense of belonging is one built on the
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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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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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Our presentation today is about the advantages and disadvantages of living far from home. As you can see‚ in our class‚ we have many classmates come from the other regions. And I’m sure that this topic is not difficult to imagine and to understand. We devise our presentation in two aspects: social life and daily life. And we will tell you both advantages and disadvantages in two types of life. To many students coming from distant provinces‚ the experience of living away from home may be one of
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expectations‚ rejecting their true identities and preventing belonging within themselves. This paradoxical nature of belonging presents a conundrum to the individuals in Anthony Minghella’s film‚ The Talented Mr Ripley (TTMR) and the Shakespearean play As You Like It (AYLI)‚ as their intrinsic desire for belonging shape their understanding of their identities and relationships with others. Our relationships with others allow individuals to feel a sense of belonging within their communities. In AYLI‚ Orlando
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Name Period Catch Me If You Can Save as L19LastnameCMIYC.docx Use the links listed on the Homework page to answer the following questions. Use complete sentences to answer and type your answers in Red. 1. List and describe scams Frank Abagnale Jr. did until he was caught. How was he able to elude the FBI? Frank Abagnale forged checks and impersonated important people such as a doctor‚ a lawyer‚ and an airline pilot. He was smart enough to scam the FBI by telling them lies
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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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Alex Pham author of "Boy‚ You Fight Like a Girl" investigates the ever growing world of online gaming and how gender affects both worlds. The "fastest-growing segment of the computer game market"(185)‚ adventure gaming‚ has hundreds of thousands of players that average twenty hours of play a week and thousands of them are playing as characters of the opposite sex. This gender switching is making games not only challenging‚ but also confusing‚ and possibly embarrassing. Pham first introduces a character
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In As You Like It‚ Shakespeare develops a sense of fulfilment and acceptance through belonging in a variety of theatrical‚ character and plot elements. Evaluate the effectiveness of the play to your understanding of belonging. Shakespeare’s As You Like It‚ explores facets of love and acceptance‚ demonstrating how relationships with others can facilitate a sense of belonging. The comedic structure of the play‚ allows for the reduction of Elizabethan social paradigms through the use of a utopian
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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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