Orlando Conflict Of Love

The play, As You Like It by Shakespeare, is a medieval love comedy. Orlando, one of the main characters, falls deeply in love with Rosalind. However, they both have different perspective of love. Orlando has to demonstrate that he is very in love with Rosalind. In the play, there’s a conflict of realistic love and fantasy love. On the side, Orlando seems to have problematic relationship with his brother, Olivier. Oliver does not like Orlando due to his personality and people’s perspective of Orlando. Thus, Orlando has rationality of brother rivalry but irrationality over love. Orlando has some sort of rivalry with his elder brother, Oliver. Their rivalry leads to Oliver wanting to kill Orlando. Oliver envies charming Orlando. However, he …show more content…
It was love at first sight feeling that he gets when he meets Rosalind for the first time. “Who would believe all this ‘love at first sight’ in such an overdose?” (Ancona & et al., 2008) Very native, Orlando runs into to the forest to find his true love, Rosalind. This action is irrational because a person would not go to that extent to find love. On the trees, Orlando would post love poems for Rosalind to read. One of his poem state: “And I to live and die her slave.” (3.2 142) It seems as those Orlando is very desperate because he is willing to become a slave for her. Also, Orlando seems irrational because again a person would not go to that extent. However, Rosalind reading those poems thought it was very poorly written. Then, Rosalind is very skeptical about true love. She has to test Orlando about how much he loves Rosalind. When Rosalind is in the forest, she transformed to Ganymede, a boy. While Ganymede and her cousin was wondering the forest, she meets Orlando. She mocks him for being so put together for a man who is in love. Ganymede tells Orlando: “No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is almost size thousand years old. And in all this there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet in a love cause.” (4.1 82-85) Ganymede has a grasp of being realistic of the intelligence in love. She declines Orlando’s allegation that he would die for Rosalind if she fails to return his love. Orlando has no control over this situation or love because of his actions. He is ready to be a slave to Rosalind which means to do anything for her. In the poem, Orlando describes her beauty and ready to be whatever she wants him to be. This sound as though he’s exaggerating and irrational because of Rosalind which he barely knew. Orlando’s irrationality leads to a powerless knowledge of