Es’Manay McKillian November 6‚ 2012 Drama 20 Thursdays‚ Kevin Exploring Gender Roles There are common issues explored in The Bacchae by Euripides and As You Like It by Shakespeare. These issues include gender roles within certain places. In both plays women and men are assigned roles for which they are expected to respect and live by. Men are highly respected and viewed as the dominant beings. They are the ruling voice of society. Women are depicted as weak and inferior. They are categorized
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former friend‚ accepts him into his company. Meanwhile‚ Rosalind and Celia‚ disguised as Ganymede and Aliena‚ arrive in the forest and meet a lovesick young shepherd named Silvius who pines away for the disdainful Phoebe. The two women purchase a modest cottage‚ and soon enough Rosalind runs into the equally lovesick Orlando. Taking her to be a young man‚ Orlando confides in Rosalind that his affections are overpowering him. Rosalind‚ as Ganymede‚ claims to be an expert in exorcising such emotions and
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Charles tells him it is the same old news‚ namely the new Duke has banished his brother the old Duke. The old Duke left with several lords and now lives in the forest of Ardenne where "they live like the old Robin Hood of England" (1.1.100-101). Rosalind‚ the old Duke’s daughter‚ has remained at court with her cousin‚ the new Duke’s daughter. Charles then informs Oliver that he has learned that Orlando plans to challenge him the next day in the Duke’s presence. Since Charles is fighting for his
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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 her loyal cousin Celia and the jester Touchstone to the
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THE NATURE OF SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY M.H. Abrams defined ‘comedy’ as ‘ a work in which materials are selected and managed primarily in order to interest‚ involve‚ and amuse us: the characters and their discomfitures engage our delighted attention rather than our profound concern. We feel confident that no great disaster will occur‚ and usually the action turns out happily for the chief characters. Abrams specifies several different types of comedy ‘within the broad spectrum of dramatic comedy’‚ including
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an apple between her lines and having Rosalind kiss the chain before giving it to Orlando. The characters in As You Like It are easy to understand because they follow their simple wishes; they do something because it suits them. For example‚ Oliver hates Orlando because he wants to. There is no reason for him to resent him‚ none at all: "... for my soul‚ though I know not why‚ hates nothing more than he." (Shakespeare 8) Duke Frederick banishes Rosalind because people felt sorry for her for her
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about a girl named Rosalind who was the nephew of a king named Duke Fredrick and a boy named Orlando who was a prince. Rosalind and Orlando fell in love with each other when they meet at a wrestling competition. Their love goes deeper when Rosalind went to forest with her cousin Cilia and a fool guy named Touchstone in search for her banished father in a disguise of a man and named herself as Ganymede and coincidently meets Orlando while Orlando was expressing his love for Rosalind with the nature of
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It is thought that Shakespeare borrowed the title from the Epistle Directorie to the Gentlemen Readers by Lodge. Referring to his novel Lode writes if you like it‚ so. Shakespeare changed the title to As You Like It because that has more charm. Also‚ the saying As You Like It implies the freedom of thought and indefference to censure that the characters express throughout the play. Another line of thought is that Shakespeare did not have a title for the play. It was named As You Like It meaning that
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scene begins in the forest with Rosalind and Jaques. He tells Rosalind the he prefers to be sad because that’s how he views the world. Rosalind tells him she rather be with someone that’s happy then travel and be depressed. Orlando shows up an hour late to meet with Rosalind who is still disguised as Ganymede. She tells him he isn’t in love with Rosalind if not he wouldn’t have been late. Orlando says if Rosalind rejects his love then he would most likely die. Rosalind and Orlando then get pretend to
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Chronologically‚ the family love expressed by Celia and Rosalind is the first form of love that Shakespeare introduces to the play; the character of Charles explains how “never two ladies loved as they do” when illustrating their relationship and the use of the word “never” exaggerates the depth and intensity of their love for one another. The girls are cousins in relation to each other and in Act 1 Scene 2; Celia’s sympathy for Rosalind concerning the banishment of her father portrays the care
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