My exposure to Shakespeare’s works has been to the extent of school mandated assigned readings, such as Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. Consequently, I am not familiar with his other works. While watching As You Like It, I found myself expecting tragedy instead of humor and was pleasantly surprised when presented with the latter. My experience had been a thoroughly enjoyable one as I was able to see Shakespeare’s play as he had originally intended, a story told through acting rather than just reading words on a page. The combined efforts of the actors set an alluring ambience on the stage that made me overlook the one setback I had when watching the play.
As with a majority of works written by Shakespeare, I found it difficult to become …show more content…
Love, being the central topic, ironically presents itself as sporadic and devoid for a majority of the play. Several of the relationships established with the play’s progression showed little sign of passion from either party; much like Shakespeare’s other works, such as Romeo and Juliet, the relationships seemed spontaneous and detached from any viable feelings of love. Rosalind, the protagonist, shows intelligence through her pragmatic understanding of love and serves as the central mediator in educating those around her out of their false conceptions of it. Furthermore, it interested me how she took on the facade of a man in order to escape from the strains of the male dominant society she lives in. Her actions set her apart from the folly female leads that Shakespeare typically …show more content…
He addresses a multitude of relationships based on friendship, love at first sight, love that breaks class boundaries, unrequited love, and so on. By doing so he tests the limits of passion the couples entail, such as how Jane Austen demonstrates relationships in Pride and Prejudice; both works deal with a complicated web of relationships that constantly intermingle. Love is proven to be polysemic and dependent on an individual’s interpretation; love is a conceptual idea based off experience and experience is necessary to avoid confusion between love and
As with a majority of works written by Shakespeare, I found it difficult to become …show more content…
Love, being the central topic, ironically presents itself as sporadic and devoid for a majority of the play. Several of the relationships established with the play’s progression showed little sign of passion from either party; much like Shakespeare’s other works, such as Romeo and Juliet, the relationships seemed spontaneous and detached from any viable feelings of love. Rosalind, the protagonist, shows intelligence through her pragmatic understanding of love and serves as the central mediator in educating those around her out of their false conceptions of it. Furthermore, it interested me how she took on the facade of a man in order to escape from the strains of the male dominant society she lives in. Her actions set her apart from the folly female leads that Shakespeare typically …show more content…
He addresses a multitude of relationships based on friendship, love at first sight, love that breaks class boundaries, unrequited love, and so on. By doing so he tests the limits of passion the couples entail, such as how Jane Austen demonstrates relationships in Pride and Prejudice; both works deal with a complicated web of relationships that constantly intermingle. Love is proven to be polysemic and dependent on an individual’s interpretation; love is a conceptual idea based off experience and experience is necessary to avoid confusion between love and