As You Like It Belonging Essay 1
Mans gregarious instinct to live in harmony and peace with his fellow man is well illustrated in the two texts, As You Like It and It’s a Funny Kind of Story. In both theses texts the major character experiences a sense of alienation from their worlds for numerous reasons. In the coarse of the action in the two dramas this is apparent alienation will be removed through a greater understanding of the positive aspects of human nature of which Love is the major contributor. Duke Frederick after usurping and banishing his brother Duke Senior disrupts the harmony of the court creating a setting filled with negative, deceiving attitudes. Duke senior and his loyal lords, seek sanctuary and security in the forest of Arden. There feeling of relief is well illustrated in Duke senior’s Quote : Now my co-mates and brothers in exile,
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that of painted pomp? Are no these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
The Duke series of rhetorical questions here, are couched in Anglo-Saxon and Latin language. The Anglo-Saxon words pertain to the forest of Arden e.g. wood, while the words referring to the court tend to be Latin in origin e.g. envious court. Shakespeare particular choice of language in using words of Anglo-Saxon origin in contrast to words of Latin origin highlight Duke Senior’s sense of comfort in this pastoral setting.
In the Forest the Duke and his group of his loyal companions are joined by Rosalind in disguise as Ganymede and her very close cousin Celia disguised as Aliana.
From this point in the setting of the forest, characters come to together in contrasting ways to illustrate certain aspects of the human condition, which demonstrate the theme of belonging. The main spring of all these contrasting relationship is the catalyst Rosalind who disguised as Ganymede brings about a metamorphoses in the characters of Audrey and touchstone, silvius and Phoebe and even Orlando and herself. Yet Her
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that of painted pomp? Are no these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
The Duke series of rhetorical questions here, are couched in Anglo-Saxon and Latin language. The Anglo-Saxon words pertain to the forest of Arden e.g. wood, while the words referring to the court tend to be Latin in origin e.g. envious court. Shakespeare particular choice of language in using words of Anglo-Saxon origin in contrast to words of Latin origin highlight Duke Senior’s sense of comfort in this pastoral setting.
In the Forest the Duke and his group of his loyal companions are joined by Rosalind in disguise as Ganymede and her very close cousin Celia disguised as Aliana.
From this point in the setting of the forest, characters come to together in contrasting ways to illustrate certain aspects of the human condition, which demonstrate the theme of belonging. The main spring of all these contrasting relationship is the catalyst Rosalind who disguised as Ganymede brings about a metamorphoses in the characters of Audrey and touchstone, silvius and Phoebe and even Orlando and herself. Yet Her