Chapter:1-Introduction
It is a play that challenges the socially accepted notions of gender and identity.The Play raises the questions about the issue of male and female identity in society.Celia and Rosalind resist the authority of the Duke Fredrick by refusing to accept his decision to banish Rosalind.The two sisters move to Arden.Rosalind disguises herself as Ganymade and Celia as Aliena.Rosalind’s disguise leads to interesting events in the pastoral that have a serious bearing on the social structure of Elizabethan England.Touchstone and Audrey’s relationship mocks the sentiments of love in courtly tradition as the meaning of love is reduced to the body.The conflict raised at the beginning is resolved at the end of the play as Rosalind …show more content…
By giving Jacques,an unsentimental bachelor Jacque’ role in As You Like It is a failure as a romantic pastoral comedy.Jacques’ role in As You Like It is that of a satirist,wanting to “cleanse the foul body of the infected world” within the comic genre satire is the anti-thesis of the romantic pastoral.Where the former is based on the premise that human nature has a propensity to err and often advocates punitive action to effect correction.In creating a character like Jacques,who rails at the world,Shakespeare has introduced into the play a contradicton to its own
It is a play that challenges the socially accepted notions of gender and identity.The Play raises the questions about the issue of male and female identity in society.Celia and Rosalind resist the authority of the Duke Fredrick by refusing to accept his decision to banish Rosalind.The two sisters move to Arden.Rosalind disguises herself as Ganymade and Celia as Aliena.Rosalind’s disguise leads to interesting events in the pastoral that have a serious bearing on the social structure of Elizabethan England.Touchstone and Audrey’s relationship mocks the sentiments of love in courtly tradition as the meaning of love is reduced to the body.The conflict raised at the beginning is resolved at the end of the play as Rosalind …show more content…
By giving Jacques,an unsentimental bachelor Jacque’ role in As You Like It is a failure as a romantic pastoral comedy.Jacques’ role in As You Like It is that of a satirist,wanting to “cleanse the foul body of the infected world” within the comic genre satire is the anti-thesis of the romantic pastoral.Where the former is based on the premise that human nature has a propensity to err and often advocates punitive action to effect correction.In creating a character like Jacques,who rails at the world,Shakespeare has introduced into the play a contradicton to its own