.It ends on a note of forgiveness. A note of reconciliation is affected between Oliver and Orlando, the senior Duke and his younger brother, Fredrick in the end. The comedy begins through a fissure in the courtly order but it ends on a note of resolution. The characters assume their normal routine...
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AOS - Belonging 'Sometimes we belong most in the places we shouldn't and vice versa. ' Discuss this referring to your set text and one related text. For human beings, belonging creates a connectedness that helps nurture self-esteem and confidence. The social and cultural milieu provided by society...
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In the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare, love portrays and presents itself differently and in many forms to each character. The diverse attitudes towards love in this play are due to the dissimilar lifestyles, the court and nature, and backgrounds of each character. The love exhibited in...
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Texts may show us that a sense of belonging can emerge from connections made with people, places and the larger world. To what extent do the texts you have studied support this idea? ‘Happiness is only real if shared’. This insightful quote from Sean Penn’s 2007 film Into the Wild shows that any...
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------------------------------------------------- Act 2, Scene 1 | Original Text| Modern Text| | Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three LORDS, like foresters| DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three LORDS enter, dressed like foresters. | 5 10 15| DUKE SENIOR Now, my co-mates and brothers in...
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AP English 12 1x 5 December 2011 Time’s Omniscient Control “Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life” (Faulkner 54). Time represents the ultimate decision maker throughout a person’s life, allowing for an...
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‘As You Like It’ Essay Belonging is the inclusion of both acceptance and alienation. Belonging is security, connection and camaraderie where as not belonging is estrangement, ostracism and seclusion. To belong to people, communities or places can create positive as well as negative outcomes...
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While the desire to belong is universal, it can develop and be found in different ways. Through expressing this idea in various forms of representation; composers reveal a myriad of experiences and interpretations connected to the concept of belonging. Shakespeare’s As You Like It explores the...
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An individual shapes his or her own sense of belonging Belonging is an intrinsic human desire, driven by an individual’s need for comfort, safety and confidence. However one’s yearning for affiliation, may lead them to shape their character and identity to fit society’s expectations, obscuring...
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Mans gregarious instinct to live in harmony and peace with his fellow man is well illustrated in the two texts, As You Like It and It’s a Funny Kind of Story. In both theses texts the major character experiences a sense of alienation from their worlds for numerous reasons. In the coarse of the...
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An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging. Belonging is a quintessentially sought after concept in human life; it is fuelled by the principal activity of individuals, interacting with existence around them including people...
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catharsis in As You Like It Literature is meant to teach. Its purpose is to shed light upon the soul and offer up the best and worst of humanity. All the stories we read, all the characters we relate to and begin to understand, they all have a tale to tell and a lesson to be learned. This is...
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John O'Donohue once said ‘the hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true. ’ Many individuals desire to belong and so forge connections with others through a...
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Gender Roles in Twelfth Night and As you Like It Much of the comedy in Twelfth Night and As you Like It emerges from Shakespeare’s distortion of traditional gender roles, as both plays contain strong female leads who disguise themselves as males. Though both Viola and Rosalind help their...
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Belonging is a fundamental human need in As You Like It, which Shakespeare deals with through the central aspects of belonging to place and relationships. In As You Like It people’s connection to the court and nature are contrasted, as the court is a place of corruption and the forest a place of...
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“Love is many things: the protective love of a mother for her child, the passion of a couple newly in love, the deep love of long-term companions and the divine love of God,” (Anderson page one). Love happens to be the greatest gift that one can ever hope to give or receive. With love, one has the...
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As you like it/Of Mice and Men/The Rabbits A personal affiliation with others and a sense of connection to an environment influence an individual’s experience of belonging. William Shakespeare exposes the consequences of such associations through a pastoral comedy, ironically manipulating the...
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Q. Comment on Act 2, scene 1. Ans: this passage is an extract from Shakespeare play “as you like it” and this scene takes place in the Forest of Arden. The scene begins with the entrance of the exiled duke and lord Amiens who are dressed foresters. The change in clothing immediately signals to the...
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Es’Manay McKillian November 6, 2012 Drama 20 Thursdays, Kevin Exploring Gender Roles There are common issues explored in The Bacchae by Euripides and As You Like It by Shakespeare. These issues include gender roles within certain places. In both plays women and men are assigned roles for which...
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As you like it Act 1 Scene 3 Solved Contextual Question Rosalind: The duke my father loved his father dearly. Celia: Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him, for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate not Orlando. Rosalind: N...
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