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As You Like It

As You Like It. Social Station and Natural Virtue. Natural virtue gets ignored or routed out Orlando and Oliver Duke Frederick and Duke Senior Rosalyn There’s no harmony between the two: Talent and social station should go together, but they don’t. Love. An inward emotion

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As You Like It

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  1. As You Like It

  2. Social Station and Natural Virtue • Natural virtue gets ignored or routed out • Orlando and Oliver • Duke Frederick and Duke Senior • Rosalyn • There’s no harmony between the two: Talent and social station should go together, but they don’t

  3. Love • An inward emotion • A social relation • Again, they should go together, but at the beginning they don’t • Celia’s understanding of love and marriage • Orlando and Rosalyn’s first encounter • Rosalyn’s embarrassment in discussing Orlando

  4. Pastoral • Nature as a cleansing place • Truer: you feel real sensations • More loving: you can express what’s in your heart • Rosalyn as Ganymede • Rosalyn and Orlando • Orlando and Oliver • [Phoebe and Silvius]

  5. Melancholy • Inner disposition • Instance where feelings and expressions do agree • Controls what you perceive of the outer world • Controls one’s own words

  6. Language • What we say should be a direct expression of what’s inside of us (as it is for the Melancholy Jaques) • There needs to be a mirthful counterpart for Jaques • Duke Senior—his words control his feelings • Orlando has no words for Rosalyn • Rosalyn has no words to describe her feelings for Orlando, except some she’s forbidden to say • Orlando writes poems that everyone laughs at • Rosalyn goes beyond the Duke: uses words to change reality

  7. Acting • Rosalyn’s power—contains all the others • It’s false, but truer than the real world • It allows one to speak and feel more freely • It’s like the forest • Wild—you can be anything you want • Has the power to cleanse civilization • By acting, Rosalyn and Orlando find words to match their feelings • They go through the thrills and disappointments of love • She says bad things about love and marriage—what we say has to express what you really go through in the social world

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