As You Like It section A essay plan

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"Although some characters wish to recreate the Golden Age, As You Like It shows that country life is no pastoral idyll
- No, it isn't a pastoral idyll
  - "churlish chiding of the winter's wind"
  - "green and gilded snake"
  - "desert city"
  - "ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I"
  - "when I was at home I was in a better place"
  - "lioness had torn some flesh away"
  - "Here shall he see/ No enemy/ But winter and rough weather"
- Yes, it is a pastoral idyll
  - "truly shepherd...it is a good life"
  - "this life more sweet"
  - "tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything"
  - "many young gentlemen flock to him every day"
  - "They live like the old robin hood of England"
  - "fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world"
  - "here live and die a shepherd"
  - "many merry men with him"
- INTRODUCTION
  - define key words 'golden age' and 'pastoral idyll'
  - set up debate. 'some would argue that AYLI is an antipastoral text due to the fact that the dangers of the forest is emphasized etc.... HOWEVER....'
  - Link to pastoral
set up debate. 'some would argue that AYLI is an antipastoral text due to the fact that the dangers of the forest is emphasized etc.... HOWEVER....'

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