Orlando as you like it

Although Orlando is a man of action, one should note that he can appreciate Rosalind's wit; he has a superbly facile mind, and he can more than hold his own in his encounters with Jaques, a man of wise loquacity, or so he thinks III. Even Jaques admires Orlando's mind: "You have a nimble wit," Jaques admiringly notes. All in all, Orlando embodies his age's Anglo-Saxon virtues of courtesy, gentleness, independence, courage, strength, and filial devotion; and having established Orlando as a knight-of-sorts, Shakespeare then reveals his human frailties — in particular, when Rosaind gives Orlando a necklace, his strength, courage, and all his manly virtues desert him, momentarily, and he is speechless I.

In this encounter with Rosalind, he is "overthrown" by love, even though he was not overthrown earlier by Charles, the gigantic wrestler. After Orlando's decision to escape to safety in the Forest of Arden, we see him primarily in the role of a man who is, in Shakespeare's words, "love-shak'd. Continually dreaming of Rosalind, he lies underneath the trees, "stretch'd along [in Celia's words], like a wounded knight" III. Although Orlando has seen Rosalind only once and has no certainty that he will see her again, he never wavers in his "true faith" for her, and, initially, he has no wish to be cured of his "love-sickness" III.

Thus is Orlando, the strutting, fiery, strong, and sensual male, brought to bay not by a ferocious foe but by the whim of Eros.

If he come to-morrow, I'll give him his payment: if ever he go alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more; and so God keep your worship! Now will I stir this gamester. I hope I shall see an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why, hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle, never schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of all sorts enchantingly beloved, and, indeed so much in the heart of the world, and especially of my own people, who best know him, that I am altogether misprised.

But it shall not be so long; this wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither, which now I'll go about.

Verse- intercut As You Like It. O my gentle master! O my sweet master! O you memory Of old Sir Rowland! Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you? And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant? Why would you be so fond to overcome The bony priser of the humorous duke? Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.

Know you not, master, to some kind of men Their graces serve them but as enemies? No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master, Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.

O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives. Your brother,'no, no brother; yet the son,.

Yet not the son, I will not call him son Of him I was about to call his father,. Yet I profess curing it by counsel. Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were graveled for lack of matter, you might take occasion to kiss.

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking — God warn us! Twice did he turn his back and purposed so; but kindness, nobler ever than revenge, and nature, stronger than his just occasion, made him give battle to the lioness.

Your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage. So fare you well. As You Like It. Plot Summary. LitCharts Teacher Editions.

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The youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, Orlando is, in many respects, the hero of the play. Passionate and loving, he cares deeply for his servant, Adam , and composes countless bad, though passionate poems about his beloved Rosalind. He is educated on the subject of love by Rosalind who is in disguise and whom he thinks is a man throughout the play, and at the end, he proves his moral strength when he courageously fights a lioness to save his the life of his previously cruel brother.

For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. In disguise…. Touchstone, desiring a goat-keeper named Audrey, has arranged for a country priest to marry them in the woods. Jaques persuades…. Instead, Phoebe falls in love with…. Rosalind, as Ganymede, pretends to be Rosalind while Orlando courts her. With Celia as priest, they go through the beginning…. As Rosalind and Celia wait for Orlando, they learn that he….

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As You Like It. Synopsis: In As You Like It , witty words and romance play out against the disputes of divided pairs of brothers.

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