As You Like It

Many people think that males in our society today are brought up to define who they are as a person through the idealized version of heroics, the glory of competition, and, above all else, the idea that only winners are successful. Females, on the other hand, are brought up to define their identities through assembly, collaboration, unselfishness, home life, and community. This view of different male and female roles can be seen throughout literature. However, though both men and women have…

As You Like it, set in France in the sixteenth century, is a comedy written by William Shakespeare that deals with many philosophical questions, such as the discussion of gender roles. The play’s heroin, Roselyn, flees persecution in the court of her uncle, Duke Fredrick. After exiled from the court, Roselyn runs to the Forest of Arden in search for love. Simultaneously, a man name Orlando, the son of the recently deceased Sir Rowland de Boys, flees to the Forest of Arden seeking refuge from his…

Despite the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) awarding Kenneth Branagh a 6.3/10.0 rating for his 2006 film of William Shakespeare's As You Like It, Branagh's film is one of the few film adaptations of Shakespeare's play. Furthermore, it also received nomination for one Golden Globe Award in 2008. Perhaps the most distinguishable difference between Shakespeare's play and Branagh's adapted film is that the film takes place in a forest named Forest of Arden in Japan rather than France. Visually, the…

In Not Like You, Kayla Hanes and her mother, Marilyn, move to New Mexico to start all over again. Marilyn promises to quit drinking and get a job. But Kayla does not believe that the mother will actually stop drinking because this has happened many times before, making it hard for Kayla to trust her again. To make it worse for them, Marilyn starts to depend on her daughter, who has a job, to pay the rent. Kayla started a dog walking and training service. During one of her sessions she comes…

If you were like Anne Frank wouldn't it be terrible to be in the Holocaust!? Has anything this bad happen to you? If you were Anne frank how would you feel, what would you do? Would you hide away from the German soldiers or just give up your life? If you hid, how would you survive when you have to hide away and not be able to be seen? If you got caught by the german soldiers would your family get split up? Would you ever see your family again? Would you be killed right away for hiding? Where…

Do you like Greek mythology?. No, I do not like Greek mythology. Greek Mythology is how the Greek's explained the world around them. To the Greek's, gods controlled every aspect of the world, the weather, their love life, their health, and their after life. The Greeks didn't worship just one God, they worshipped the good god's and respected the bad gods. II. The god of all gods (so to speak) was Cronus. Cronus was overthrown by his son Zeus with help from his brothers Poseidon and Hades. Once…

In the play, As You Like it, Shakespeare pens through the character Jaques, the proverbial saying, “all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.” No doubt, we are all players on the world's stage, but like Shakespeare—whether we've ever put pen to page, or fingers to keyboard, to spin a yarn or not—I believe we are all storytellers as well. As the oft-quoted dictum goes, knowledge is power, and stories, ab initio have been its modus operandi. Romantic, or realistic,…

William Shakespeare was born in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in the year of 1564. His father was a tradesman and his mother was a daughter to an affluent farmer (The life of William Shakespeare 1554-1616). He was not born into a wealthy family, and this represented the difficulties his family underwent and the inability to attend a university. By the time William Shakespeare decides to move to London, it is where he begins to write his sonnets and plays. Overall William Shakespeare represents…

Like Taxi and Are you Being Served?, it is set within a workplace. However this office is the subject of a documentatry (or mockumentary) of the inner workings of a paper supply company and its employees. Each episode is filed with hand held camera shots and the…

In the third journal article by Heidi M. Reeder, ‘I like you…as a friend’: The role of attraction in cross-sex friendship, she begins by defining friendship and breaking it down as to what is attractive to each party in a friendship. While most other research has been focused on how sexual attractiveness is the underlying motivator for an opposite-sex friendship, Reeder conducts research to conclude if that is the only motivator. She performs a study using in-depth interviews of 20 opposite-sex…