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As You Like It
When Orlando first meets Ganymede (Rosalind, in disguise as a man) and Aliena (Celia, disguised as a shepherdess) in act 3, scene 2 of Shakespeare's As You like It, Orlando has been posting love...
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The true Duke—Duke Senior—has taken refuge in the forest in the way that the lines of the song sung under the greenwood tree suggest that people should. When Duke Frederick usurps his older...
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As the play opens, Rosalind and Celia are cousins and very close friends. Both come from aristocratic backgrounds: Rosalind is the daughter of the deposed Duke Senior, whose brother, Celia's...
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At first Rosalind decides to disguise herself as a man because it will be safer for her and Celia as they travel to the Forest of Arden together in order to escape Duke Frederick. However, once in...
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The goddess of the moon and hunting Diana is the "thrice-crowned queen of night." Just as we say "twice" to mean two times, it was also the case in Shakespeare's day and for centuries afterwards to...
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The main "scenic contrast" in the play is, as you say, between the court and the Forest of Arden. In this formulation, the court is a place of plotting and revenge, while the Forest is a place of...
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Blank verse is another term for unrhymed iambic pentameter, the very specific format Shakespeare used in most of his plays and nearly all of his sonnets. While Shakespeare also used rhyming verse...
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The play is a comedy for several reasons. First, it is a comedy in the sense of its dramatic form: the good characters end up together, and the lovers marry happily. Second, the mood is rarely...
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Rosalind's initial motivation for wearing the disguise is safety. A woman is more vulnerable in the wilderness than a man is, so she dresses like a man to ward off the threat of rape in particular....
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In act 2, scene 7 of William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It, Duke Senior and his companions-in-exile in the Forest of Arden are having their dinner al fresco. They're suddenly set...
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In act 5, most conflicts are resolved. One pastoral conflict, albeit a slight one, concerns Audrey and the rival suitors Touchstone and William. Touchstone engages in verbal conflict to prove his...
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In the song "Under the Greenwood Tree" in act 2, scene 5, of Shakespeare's As You Like It, Jaques and Amiens sing of those they would invite to the Forest of Arden to join them under the greenwood...
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Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" is an analogy of the different phases of life that a man goes through during a lifetime. The use of imagery, metaphor and simile are the strongest figures of...
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Celia's sacrifice is to leave her comfortable home at the court, where she is daughter of the duke, to join Rosalind in her banishment. Celia is even the one who suggests they go to the Forest of...
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In Shakespeare's As You Like It, Rosalind and Celia are cousins. Rosalind is the daughter of Duke Senior, who has been deposed and exiled to the Forest of Arden by his younger brother, Duke...
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Pastoral literature celebrates the freedom and purity of life outside the city, in the rural areas. Unlike in real life rural areas, characters in a pastoral play don't need to work hard all day on...
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Shakespeare tells us in "As You Like It" that:"All the world's a stageAnd all the men and women merely players".The characters in this story are trapped by the roles that...
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In act 1, scene 3, Rosalind and Celia are talking about Rosalind's love for Orlando when Duke Ferdinand enters the room "with his eyes full of anger" and tells Rosalind to "get you from our...
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The pastoral idyllic poem originates with Greek poet Theocritus and idealizes the simple rural life of shepherds and other people who dwell in the countryside and live their lives close to nature...
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When you talk about gender roles in Shakespeare's day, you can't limit the discussion to male and female. You need to take social status and class into consideration.Of course, the people with the...
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The play offers a comparison between life at court and life in the Forest of Arden. Rosalind and Celia disguise themselves and move among the shepherds and other rustics, discussing love and other...
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At the end of act 1, scene 2, following the wrestling match won by young Orlando, Duke Frederick's attendant, Le Beau, warns Orlando that Duke Frederick is "humorous" (meaning that he's being very...
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What Shakespeare is saying in the line that you cite is that all people eventually die. In this passage from As You Like It, he has gone through what he says are the seven stages of human (male)...
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The answer to both parts of your question is "Yes." As You Like It is both a pastoral and a satire on the pastoral. It is a pastoral because it fulfills the requirements for the category, which...
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Duke Frederick and Duke Senior embody one of two major conflicts between brothers in Shakespeare's As You Like It. The other conflict is between two younger men, Orlando and his older brother,...
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In Act 2, Scene 7 of As You Like It, the melancholy Jaques muses on the stages of life. The speech begins with infancy, with man "Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms" (144), and then it ends in...
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Shakespeare's famous and frequently quoted passage comes from the melancholy Jacques in Act II, Scene 7 of As You Like It. In the part in which Jacques characterizes the young man as a soldier who...
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In Shakespeare's As You Like It, Touchstone is a fool, or jester, in Duke Frederick's household. Duke Frederick is a serious, no-nonsense, villainous character in the play, and this might explain...
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In act 5, scene 2, the brothers Orlando and Oliver meet in the forest. The scene begins with Orlando responding to something that his brother has just told him. We soon understand that Oliver has...
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This is rather a baffling question. In Act III scene 3, when Touchstone tries to marry Audrey as quickly as possible, he calls her a "slut," recognising that she has had many relationships before,...
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The quote you have identified comes from Act I scene 3, and is said by Rosalind to Celia, following Celia's suggestion that they escape the court together and go to the Forest of Arden. If we have...
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In As You Like It, Duke Frederick banishes his niece, Rosalind, after he usurps her father’s realm. Initially he allows Rosalind to stay at court for his daughter's sake because she and Celia are...
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This quote comes at the beginning of the conversation between Touchstone and Corin, who in this scene debate the various merits of country living vs. living in the court. The quote you have...
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Although Shakespeare expresses many different types of love in As You Like It, the relationship between Rosalind and Orlando represents the ideal of romantic love and is expressed through poetry,...
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The clue to understanding Duke Frederick's suspicions and banishment of Rosalind lies in the preceding scene, Act I, scene ii. The last half of the scene is devoted to the wrestling match...
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When Rosalind first encounters Orlando in Act 3, Scene 1, they begin their conversation with the following dialogue: ROSALIND I pray you, what is't o'clock? ORLANDO You should ask me what time o'...
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First of all, Act I, Scene I of As You Like It explains that Rosalind and Celia are cousins. Celia explains that Rosalind's father is her own uncle and that her father is Rosalind's uncle: If my...
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How sarcastic? Plenty. First the character Jacques is himself sarcastic, ironic, comic, and a receptacle and dispenser of wit, (often sarcastic, as is modern parody) through whom Shakespeare...
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Rosalind's scheme of pretending to be Ganymede and having Orlando court Ganymede while Orlando pretends he is courting Rosalind is a clever and witty way for her to test the sincerity of his love...
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Rosalind speaks more lines than any other female character in Shakespeare’s works. She also controls many of the events in As You Like It, in a role that often goes to a male character. Rosalind...
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There are two early instances in Act I in which Shakespeare establishes the strong bond between Celia and Rosalind, a bond that underpins the whole play, although Celia does slip to the background...
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One of Shakespeare's principal themes in As You Like It is the difference between the court and country or, more precisely, the court from which the rightful Duke has been ejected and the forest of...
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A character sketch is a piece of writing that carefully describes a character for a reader, including who the character is and specific details we know about the character from what the author...
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Celia is a virtuous princess, the daughter of Duke Frederick, who is devoted, intelligent, feeling, compassionate and opposed to harm being done to others, like in Charles' wrestling matches (which...
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In his famous speech at the beginning of Act II, Scene 1 of As You Like It, Duke Senior asks, "Here feel we but the penalty of Adam." He is referring to Adam in Genesis who was banished from the...
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As you mention in your tag, Celia is referring to Touchstone when she talks about the "whetstone of the wits" in this scene. She is saying that fools like Touchstone are made to help sharpen the...
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The Forest of Arden is represented as an enchanted place which changes everybody who comes there. It has already made a change in Duke Senior and his loyal followers. They have become relaxed and...
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Rosalind does not necessarily assume that she is safe just because she has reached the Forest of Arden. After all, Orlando did not consider it a safe haven when he assaulted Duke Senior and his...
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This quote from Milton is of particular relevance to Jacques in Act II scene 1 in this famous pastoral comedy. The original quote is said by Satan and comments on the way that even the worst and...
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In As You Like It, Rosalind and Celia do not appear until Scene 2. At the beginning of the scene, Celia is trying to cheer up Rosalind, whose father, the rightful Duke has been deposed and...
