As You Like It is love: The Language of Love
The most obvious concern of As You Like It is love, and particularly the attitudes and the language appropriate to young romantic love. This is obvious from the relationships between Orlando and Rosalind, Silvius and Phoebe, Touchstone and Audrey, and Celia and Oliver. The action of the play moves back and forth among these couples, inviting us to compare the different styles and to recognize from those comparisons some important facts about young love. Here the role of Rosalind is decisive. Rosalind is Shakespeare's greatest and most vibrant comic female role. She is clearly the only character in the play who has throughout an intelligent, erotic, and fully anchored sense of love, and it becomes her task in the play to try to educate others out of their false notions of love, especially those notions which suggest that the real business of love is adopting an inflated Petrarchan language and the appropriate attitude that goes with it.
Rosalind falls in love with Orlando at first sight (as is standard in Shakespeare), becomes erotically energized, and remains so throughout the play. She's delighted and excited by the experience and is determined to live it to the full moment by moment. One of the great pleasures of watching Rosalind is that she is always celebrating her passionate feelings for Orlando. She does not deny them or try to play games with her emotions. She's aware that falling in love has made her subject to Celia's gentle mockery, but she's not going to pretend that she isn't totally thrilled by the experience just to spare herself being laughed at (she even laughs at herself, while taking enormous delight in the behaviour which prompts...
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He forced parents to attend their sons executions and then would invite them over to dinner after. Setuonius argued that Caligula’s savage crimes matched his brutal language. He was not compassionate towards anyone and was comfortable doing whatever he wanted to anyone. His motto was “let them hate me, so long as they fear me.” When someone was executed, he wanted it to be a slow, painful death. He preferred that small wounds be inflicted so that they could feel that they were dying. He often watched the trails of torture while he was eating or enjoying himself, which suggests that Caligula was a sociopath. Whenever he kissed the neck of his wife or mistress, he would mentioning cutting her throat. Although Setunious has only mentioned the negative things about Caligula, there are some positive things about Caligula as well. Caligula was extremely talented and practiced multiple arts. He made appearances as a Thracian gladiator & charioteer, singer, and dancer. He often supported tragic actors at public performances. Despite his cruel behavior and arrogant attitude, Caligula was extremely
The first half of Suetonius’ biography of Tiberius reflects very well on him. He is described as being so humble as to be almost annoying about it. Suetonius quotes a senator saying, “others were slow in doing what they promised, but that he was slow to promise what he was already doing.” However, the second half of the biography, which addresses Tiberius’ ruthlessness leads me to believe that Suetonius did not think highly of Tiberius’ in the second half of his reign. To illustrate this, I will give a brief summary of the biography. Then I will give my reasons for believing that the first two years of Tiberius’ reign was good. Finally, I will show how Tiberius turned sour, and became like the many other bad emperors.
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He had affairs and sexual relationships with 3 of his 4 sisters, while in a marriage. During his time, he whined often about how dull and boring the times were, and prayed for a military catastrophe or a public starvation for "entertainment". His behavior had become so erratic that during a gladiator match, he ordered for a whole section of the audience/public to be thrown to the lions for the sole purpose of “entertainment.” As Caligula’s actions became more outrageous, the people of Rome began to hate him, and wanted to get rid of him as their leader. Towards the end of his reign, many members began to plot against their leader. Nevertheless, when news of these schemes reached Caligula, he was not delighted. He forced many of the governors of his provinces to commit suicide if they were suspected even a little
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In Shakespeare's As You Like It loyalty is dominant theme. Each character possesses either a loyalty or disloyalty towards another. These disloyalties and loyalties are most apparent in the relationships of Celia and Rosalind, Celia and Duke Fredrick, Orlando and Rosalind, Adam and Orlando, and Oliver and Orlando. In these relationships, a conflict of loyalties causes characters to change homes, jobs, identities and families.
Many characters undergo a change in William Shakespeare’s play, “As You Like It”. Duke Senior goes from being a member of a court to being a member of a forest and Orlando changes from a bitter, younger brother, to a love-struck young man. The most obvious transformation undergone, is undoubtedly that of Rosalind. Her change from a woman to a man, not only alters her mood, candor, and gender, but also allows her to be the master of ceremonies.
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As You Like It starts out in the court, where Rosalind in a female dressed as a female, and Orlando is a male dressed as a male. Rosalind is being treated like a woman and she clearly acts like one. She attends the wrestling match, where her uncle, Duke Frederick, asks her and Celia, her cousin, to try on talk Orlando out of participating in the match. This is the point when Rosalind and Orlando meet, coerce, and begin having feelings for each other. Orlando does in fact defeat Charles, the Duke's wrestler. In this situation, Rosalind is portraying a female with typical female characteristics and Orlando is carrying out his male characteristics. In the court, they are in there true societal roles, but once they enter the forest of Ardenne those roles are dramatically changed.