”As You Like It” by William Shakespeare Essay

Support the view that Shakespeare is examining several(predicate) kinds of drive in and marriage in this bunk?In the lam As You Like It there are quite a few varied types of hit the hay. There are four sexual relationships in the play, all of which buzz off different varieties, or examples of go to sleepThe main couple in the play are Rosalind and Orlando. They first meet in a wrestling refer that Orlando has been entered in against Charles. Rosalind nonices him for his good looks and youth, and because of this is concerned he will be hurt. Orlando wins the partake though and as a token Rosalind gives Orlando her necklace. Orlando instantly reachs in issue with Rosalind when he first sees her and is stuck for what to say to her,Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts are all impel down, and that which here stands up is nevertheless aQuintain, mere lifeless block.Rosalind hence runs off into the forest of Arden dressed as a human called Ganymede. Orlando in any ca se flees to the forest where he writes ridiculous love poems and posts them on trees for Rosalind to reckon. Rosalind, dressed as Ganymede, then becomes friends with Orlando and gives him advice on ways to go about asking her to attach him. She does this by pretending to be Rosalind while dressed as Ganymede. This is so Orlando does not recognise it is her. This can get quite confusing at times. She finally reveals to him that it has been her all along though and they get married p to each oney away.This is the first kind of love where both people love each other and no one else. This is the most simple love maculation in the poem because it has no complications of people loving other people, or them not being allowed to love each other.The couple that show the least(prenominal) romance throughout the play is Silvius and Phebe. Silvius is a kind-hearted shepherd who lives in the woodland of Arden. Phebe though is a rough shepherdess who finds Silvius annoying. The rationality for this is because Silvius is deeply in love with Phebe, and she has rejected him many times. Phebe just ignores him though and because of this Silvius keeps on asking her to love him, Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me, do not, Phebe.Say that you love me not, still say not so inBitterness.The lone(prenominal) person Phebe finds attractive in the play is Ganymede, who is actually Rosalind. She writes a earn to Ganymede asking him to marry her, and is rejected quite obviously. As a turn out of this Phebe is forced to marry Silvius in the end because she has no one else who likes her.I think the aspect of love that is showed her is a cruel side of love. The reason I think this is because Phebe is virtually forced to marry Silvius when she does not privation to. Silvius though is overjoyed because she is the love of his life and marrying her is his dream. This is unfair on Phebe though because she does not love him, but she has no one else so has to go along with it.Celia and Oliver ar e the most surprising couple in the play I think. This is because they meet actually close to the end of the play, and instantly fall in love with each other. Another reason for this is that Celia is a actually kind, likeable woman throughout the play. Oliver on the other hand changes his personality. At the beginning of the play he is a very nasty man who says he hates his brother because of his good looks and his ability to be liked by everyone he meets. His personality changes though when he is sent into the forest to find his brother, Orlando, by Duke Frederick. He finds Orlando and then he meets Celia, who he instantly go in love with. He then makes the story up of deliver his brother from a lion and his personality completely changes.Twas I, but tis not I. I do not shame to tell youWhat I was, since my regeneration so dulcetly tastes,Being the thing I am.He turns into the complete opposite of his old personality, and becomes very nice. This also attracts Celia to him, as wellspring as her thinking he is good looking. This attraction between the ii of them means they become a couple and get married too.This is the alike(p) kind of love as Orlando and Rosalind experienced. This is where they have no complications and both of them love each other. They also fall in love with the first spile of each other, as did Rosalind and Orlando.The next couple I am waiver to examine from the play is the pairing of touchstone and Audrey. This is possibly the strangest couple in the play. My reason for thinking this is that they are completely different people, and have very different backgrounds. Touchstone is a court jester, and has lived a sophisticated polished life. Audrey on the other hand is a orbit girl who has been brought up on a farm. Even though there are these differences, the devil still get married. They were meant to be wed quite early into the play, but this did not go as planned and they did not. They did how ever talk more(prenominal) a bout it and finally got married at the end of the play.Come sweet Audrey, we must be married.The love that this couple portray is lust. Touchstone may not have had the chance with a woman before, but he now has the chance of Audrey. He is only with her really because of the position he can get things out of her, mainly sex. She is a country wench and Touchstone knows this, and I think this is the reason he goes subsequently her,Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slutWere to site good meat into an unclean dish.