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As you like it is one of a famous comedy plays of Shakespeare. Rosalind is one of his most inspiring female characters, also she has more line than any female of Shakespeare characters, Rosalind, the daughter of exile Duke falls in love with Orlando the son of a nobleman who recently died. When she is banished from her usurping uncle, Duke Frederick, she takes her cousin Celia and Touchstone with her to the Ardenne forest where her father and his friends exile, she pretends as a boy. Themes about

“As You Like It”, is a Shakespearean comedy that is believed to have been written around the 1600’s. This play holds onto many strong motifs throughout the entire play. One of the most obvious motifs would have to be the concept of exile. Many of the characters in the play have been intimidated away from their homes, while others left voluntarily to live in the forest of Arden. This separation from their homes in the court aids in helping Shakespeare’s major themes come alive. The major themes evident

In William Shakespeare’s play, As You Like It, the protagonist, Rosalind, disguises herself as a boy for the majority of the play. Rosalind is used by Shakespeare to help divulge a portion of Shakespeare’s personal life and also show flaws in the unique stereotypes that are expected for boys and girls. Shakespeare’s main use for Rosalind was to illustrate the unique features and characteristics that boys and girls are expected to have and how easily they can be overlooked. Even though boys and girls

The play to be reviewed is As You Like It, written by William Shakespeare. The prevailing philosophy throughout the play is existentialism. What is existentialism? Existentialism can be defined through its ontology. Ontology is the study of the nature of reality and is also called the theory of reality. The ontology of existentialism can be discussed in under concepts of man and existence. In the concept of man, existentialists believe that man is not bound by any antecedent human nature but rather

SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY PHILOSOPHY The play to be reviewed is As You Like It, written by William Shakespeare. The prevailing philosophy throughout the play is existentialism. What is existentialism? Existentialism can be defined through its ontology. Ontology is the study of the nature of reality and is also called the theory of reality. The ontology of existentialism can be discussed in under concepts of man and existence. In the concept of man, existentialists believe that man is not bound by any antecedent

effects. In As You Like it, the disguise becomes very farcical. Disguise may be perceived in a lot of different ways. In this part the thesis will focus on the disguise which

After considering all the definitions available from The Oxford English Dictionary Online of the word giddy chosen from the passage, As You Like It Act 3 Scene 3, lines 281–328, I had concluded that Definition 3 A deemed to be the most relevant to the passage. The description of “attributes and actions” and “elated to thoughtlessness” {OED online, 2017) seems rather fitting to the character of Rosalind, and almost key, for Rosalind a petite but noble, wise woman, with a profound knowledge of all

your dream. In the film ‘Bend it Like Beckham’, Jess and her parents have a conflict between each other and how she wants to become a soccer player but her parents expect her to do something else just like how in the book ‘An Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’ by Sherman Alexie, Junior wanted to play basketball with a better school but his childhood friend Rowdy got mad at him because he was going to a rival school. Jess chose soccer over her culture just like how Junior the rival school over

The movie “Bend it like Beckham” is about an Indian girl named Jess from Britain that loves to play football/soccer. However her family tends to be really religious and this gets in the way of Jess’s dreams in playing football. The first question asked was “In what ways do you see yourself as Jess”? Well throughout the movie, Jess was very determined and was willing to risk things to follow her dreams. Honestly if I really had something I wanted to do, I would be willing to risk things also. I know

Gurinder Chadha directed the film Bend It Like Beckham which was released in April of 2002. In this movie, the motif of David Beckham is presented through the various cinematic techniques that Chadha displays. Jessminda, the protagonist in the film, looks upon Beckham as her ‘God’, inspiration and mentor. Lighting, soundtrack and colour are three main elements used to convey Jess’ emotional state throughout the film as seen in the ‘Opening scene’, ‘Taking down Beckham’ and ‘Beckham at the airport’