As You Like It- Themes
- Created by: AnyaSea
- Created on: 03-01-22 12:34
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- As You Like It Themes
- Love
- AYLI mocks traditional dramatisations of love
- Orlando's bad poetry
- Silvius's slavish commitment to Phoebe
- There are many different types of love in A You Like It- romantic, bawdy, sisterly/brotherly, fatherly, unrequited
- Court vs Countryside
- AYLI is a pastoral comedy, meaning it explores the difference between life in a court vs life in the country
- The performance of life
- As You Like It explores how everyone's life unfolds like a theatrical play
- An obvious example of this theme would be Jacques' 'all the world's a stage' speech
- As You Like It explores how everyone's life unfolds like a theatrical play
- Gender identity
- Rosalind disguises herself as a man and everyone believes her, suggesting that gender is just performative
- Love
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