Essays on As You Like It

Characters in the texts; “As you like it”, the play by Shakespeare, “Standing in the shoes of others”, the speech by Linda Burney and “Girl Interrupted” the 1999 film directed by James Mangold, find a sense of belonging under the influence of place. A physical place is often symbolic of whether a character feels accepted….

The main themes of “As You Like It” are the pastoral ideal and theideal of romantic love. Forest of Aden is the primary setting where these themesdevelop. Nature serves as a refuge from society where we can find solutions toinjustice and unhappiness. This play is a comedy and thus has a happy ending butit is…

The complex plot – full of mistaken identities, misdirected passions, high comedy, low tricks, andunexpected poignancy – begins as a ship, carrying the identical twins Viola and Sebastian is wreckedoff the coast of a fictional country, Illyria. Viola is washed ashore on this alien coast and becomesconvinced that her beloved brother is dead. She learns…

Comic Elements in Shakespeare      KET[7184] Comedy, the very term evokes the sense of mirth and laughter in the readers and the audience, as the case may be. Perhaps a picture of amusement pops up before our mind’s eye. Opine Kathleen Morner and Ralph Rausch that, “In general any literary work that aims to amuse by…

ESSAY I : SHAKESPEARE AND GENDER-BASED STEREOTYPES. “I could find in my heart to disgrace my man’s apparel and cry like a woman” (II. Iv : 3) is undoubtedly a statement that would make the feminists react strongly nowadays. In a society trying hard to maintain and preserve a certain equality of treatment between men…