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What is the meaning of "they have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts" from As You...
In the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare, there is a quote which refers to our busy but temporary lives here on earth. The quote reads "they have their exits and entrances, and one man in...
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What is a summary of the poem/song "Under the Greenwood Tree" by Shakespeare in five to six sentences?
The song is split into three sections interspersed between dialogue in Act II, scene 5 of As You Like It. In the first section, Amiens, a courtier, sings: Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie...
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From "The Seven Ages of Man".... Explain the meaning of the following: "and then the lover sighing like furnace"
The meaning of "and then the lover sighing like furnace" in William Shakespeare’s “The Seven Ages of Man” from his comedy As You Like It is that the passion and expression of love can be akin to...
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How can you explain this phrase of William Shakespeare's famous poem "Seven Ages of Man" from As You Like It: "Sans...
The seven ages of man that Jaques describes are the stages of life: from birth and childhood to adulthood, old age, and finally extreme old age. When a person is "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste,...
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What is the role of the Forest of Arden in Shakespeare's As You Like It?
William Shakespeare's As You Like It is seemingly set in two worlds: the court of Duke Frederick and the Forest of Arden, which serves its role as a place of temporary respite from the troubles of...
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What are the poetic devices used in the "Seven Ages of Man" in As You Like It?
The famous "Seven Ages of Man" speech is spoken by Jaques (pronounced "JAY-kweez") in act 2, scene 7, of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy, As You Like It. Jaques is a contradictory character who is...
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While describing the soldier in "The Seven Ages of Man," why does Shakespeare compare "reputation" with a "bubble"?
This theme of the seven ages of man dates back to antiquity. In classical literature, though, descriptions of these seven ages were generally encomiastic, praising the virtues appropriate to each...
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How is the "second childishness" in "the seven ages of a man" from As You Like It related to being a child?
This quotation comes from Jaques's famous speech, beginning "all the world's a stage." The speech describes the so-called "seven ages of man," moving from infancy through youth and adulthood to the...
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Whoever Loved That Loved Not At First Sight
Phebe, a shepherdess, makes this statement to Silvius in Act III, scene 5 of the play. The statement applies to Phebe herself, as she tells Silvius, who is madly in love with her, "the time was...
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What plot does Oliver hatch against Orlando in As You Like It?
Oliver dislikes his attractive, talented, and physically stronger younger brother Orlando. When Orlando comes to him demanding the thousand crowns he is owed as his inheritance, becoming physically...
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Why do Rosalind and Celia disguise themselves when they leave the court in As You Like It?
The tyrannical Duke Frederick has decided to banish his niece Rosalind from the ducal court. There is no good reason for this outrageous action; Frederick is only doing it because he's insanely...
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What was the role of women in Shakespeare's time?
Women's roles in Shakespeare's time were quite limited, despite the fact that a woman ruled England at the time of William Shakespeare. The Elizabethan society was highly patriarchal, and women...
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What poetic device is used in "Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind"?
Shakespeare employs apostrophe in this poem. Apostrophe is when the speaker addresses someone or something that cannot respond. In this case, the speaker directly addresses the winter wind in the...
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Please explain the poem "The Seven Ages".
"The Seven Ages of Man," as the character Jaques tells it, is a poem about the stages of life that we all go through if we live out a long life. He starts out comparing life to a play on a stage...
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How is As You Like It a pastoral play?
Pastoral plays were a common genre during the Renaissance period. They idealized country life and presented this world as almost Edenic in its innocence. As such, these stories were less interested...
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Explain one simile in the poem "The Seven Ages of Man."
A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two different things using the words "like" or "as." Jacques, the speaker, uses several similes throughout the speech "The Seven Ages...
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Discuss As You Like It as an example of pastoral literature and say what features of the pastoral mode lend...
Pastoral literature pits the corruptions of the city against the innocence of a natural setting. The natural world depicted in pastoral literature is not realistic. It is a dream world, a utopic...
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What metaphors do we find in Jaques' "Seven Ages of Man Speech" in Act 2, Scene 7 of Shakespeare's As You Like It,...
The speech known as Jaques' "The Seven Ages of Man Speech," at the end of Act 2, Scene 7, contains many different metaphors as well as similes. For starters, the speech itself is an extended...
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What makes As You Like It a pastoral comedy play? What does pastoral refer to? Is it significant in the play?
This comedy is pastoral in that it is written in the tradition of many works at the time that sought to compare the simplicity of country life to the complex and stressful life of cities and towns....
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In the "Seven Ages of Man" speech from As You Like It, why does the lover sigh like a furnace?
The simile that Shakespeare uses here is entirely appropriate in that a furnace is a place of extreme heat, as is the heart of a young man overburdened with love. The lover's heart is burning with...
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What does the quote "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players" mean?
The fact that Jacques recites these lines in "As You Like It" may have no special significance. I suspect that Shakespeare wrote out many short speeches and sololiquies extemporaniously as the...
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In context of this saying, "Shakespeare has no heroes, but only heroines," what are the leading traits of Rosalind in...
Shakespeare is said to not have heroes in his comedies because of the significant role the lead female characters play (this may not be as easily asserted for his tragedies and histories,...
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Compare and contrast the characters of Rosalind and Celia in the play As You Like It.
Rosalind and Celia have grown up together and have formed a strong attachment. Rosalind has the much stronger character. She is more intelligent than Celia and also more self-reliant,...
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What is the nature of the intensity of Rosalind and Orlando's love in Shakespeare's As You Like It?
Shakespeare certainly does portray many different types of love in As You Like It with varying types of intensity. Rosalind and Orlando's love for each other certainly is one example of intense...
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Discuss the relationship between Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright who lived from April 26, 1564 to April 23, 1616. His pastoral comedy, As You Like It, was first published in 1623. It is an account of Rosalind and...
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Describe the love between Rosalind and Orlando in As You Like It?
First of all, Rosalind and Orlando are not "it." They are human characters in Shakespeare's play As You Like It. In Act I, they meet when Orlando is in a wrestling match against a much bigger...
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What is the relationship between Oliver and Orlando in the beginning and end of the play As You Like It?
At the beginning of As You Like It Oliver and Orlando hate each other. Orlando is resentful because Oliver, his older brother, refuses to help him improve his education but treats him like a...
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What is a character sketch of Orlando in As You Like It?
Orlando is the ideal romantic hero for a play like As You Like It. He makes an excellent match for the heroine Rosalind, because they are both intelligent and strong individuals. Orlando has to...
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In As You Like It, what names do Rosalind and Celia decide to give themselves when in disguise?
The scene you need to look at is Act I scene 3, when Celia and Rosalind plan to go to the Forest of Arden together because Celia's father has banished Rosalind from court, just as he has already...
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Discuss the significance of disguise in As You Like It.
The theme of disguise is central to As You Like It, as two of the main characters spend most of the play disguised as other people. More generally, the idea of artifice contrasted with authenticity...
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Significance of title "As You Like It" by Shakespeare for my project.
Shakespeare apparently was highlighting the fact that he was presenting a play with the ingredients he knew his audiences would like. The play contains ingredients that are still very popular with...
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How is As You Like It a romantic pastoral comedy? Give reasons for each part.
As You Like It is considered to be a romantic pastoral comedy, one of Shakespeare's most light-hearted plays. It is a romantic comedy in that it ends in multiple marriages: Rosalind and Orlando;...
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Compare the characters of Rosalind and Celia in As You Like It.
One way to answer this question is to compare the outward affect of the characters, and approach the question as a director or actor might. The two characters are sisters, but it is necessary to...
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Sweet are the uses of adversity . Discuss the statement with reference to As You Like It.
"Sweet are the uses of adversity" is the beginning of a famous speech by the exiled Duke Senior in Shakespeare's As You Like It." He is expressing a truth which may seem paradoxical but which has...
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Is Shakespeare's As You Like It a pastoral romance, and is it a satire on pastoral life or values?
As You Like It is a pastoral, in that it conforms to the conventions of the pastoral. It is a satire of the pastoral, in that it calls attention to the artificiality of the pastoral ideal. The...
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What are two poetic devices in the poem beginning with "All the world's a stage" from As You Like It?
Shakespeare uses an extended metaphor in his poem commonly referred to as "The Seven Ages of Man" from As You Like It. Beginning with "All the world's a stage," the speaker compares the world to a...
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Explain how As You Like It is a comedy.
The definition of comedy has changed considerably over time. The Ancient Greeks, who had no specific genre for satire (the only literary form invented by the Romans), tended to produce satirical...
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What is the main theme and ideas of each stage found in Jaques' "Seven Ages of Man" speech, Act 2, Scene 7 of...
Jaques' essential point in his "seven ages of man" speech found in Act 2, Scene 7 is essentially to assert that life is rather arbitrary. He compares life to a play with all of humanity...
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What is the symbolic meaning of "All the world's a stage" by Shakespeare in As You Like It?
The soliloquy of Jacques in As You Like It is not symbolic but metaphorical. The extended metaphor has two main parts. In the first part he is saying that everybody in the world is an actor on a...
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What is the character sketch of Touchstone in As You Like It?
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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Explain in full detail the personification and its effectiveness in the passage "The Seven Stages of Man" from As You...
Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things. An example of personification occurs in character Jaques’s soliloquy in Act II, Scene 7 of As You Like It lines 18...
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What are some examples of repetition in the monologue "Seven Ages of Man" from Shakespeare's As You Like It?
Jacques's monologue from As You Like It is an example of dramatic poetry, and as such, repetition of words and ideas is employed for emphasis and to intensify effect. Here are some examples of this...
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How is hatred between Orlando and Oliver transformed to love through forgiveness in As You Like It, and how can we...
In Act III, scene i, we learn that Duke Frederick wants revenge against Orlando. He orders Oliver to seek out Orlando and return him to the court. If Oliver fails, Frederick will dispossess him...
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Why did Oliver hate Orlando?
It possibly as simple as typical sibling rivalry. In 'As You Like It' Shakespeare is taking a theme which is so common in very many families and expanding it to encompass and magnify that on a huge...
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Describe the love between Orlando and Rosalind in As You Like It.
Shakespeare considers the nature and manifestation of Love in all of his comedies. Love was a big issue in his day, because the idea of marrying someone for love (rather than to create an alliance...
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What is the nature of the spontaneous love between Celia and Oliver as seen in Shakespeare's As You Like It?
Shakespeare certainly does portray spontaneity of love as a theme in As You Like It, and Celia and Oliver falling in love certainly is one example of a spontaneous romance.Oliver appears to have...
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What is the relationship between Duke Senior and Duke Frederick at the beginning and at the end of the play?
Given that the two brothers are never on stage together, what we know about their relationship comes from what they say to others and what others say about them. We first hear about Frederick and...
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Describe the character of Rosalind in As You Like It. Describe in detail your reaction to the character of Rosalind .
When the play opens, Rosalind is living with her cousin, Celia and uncle, Duke Frederick, who has banished her father, Duke Senior. She meets Orlando at a wrestling match and is smitten with him....
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What pastoral elements are present in Shakespeare's As You Like It?
Pastoral elements in literature contain idealized conventions of a rustic or rural life. Various descriptions of landscape and nature come into play as well as participants in country life (like...
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What are the seven ages of man in Jaques’ speech in 2.7 of As You Like It?
The famous monologue of the pessimistic character Jaques, who contemplates the invariableness and futility of life, comes in Act II, Scene 7 of Shakespeare's As You Like It. For, he declares, in...
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