...As You Like It presents an ideal world, just as The Merchant of Venice did. The Forest of Arden has as much romance, as many delightful lovers, more laughter and Joy. Lamb, Charles and Mary. Like A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, it is built by means of two worlds: the world ruled by Duke Frederick and the world of the Forest of Arden. Lamb, Charles and Mary. The effect is not the "separate but equal" envelope structure of A Midsummer Night Dream, nor the interlocking and necessary alternation of The Merchant of Venice; instead, Frederick's world first seems dominant and then dissolves and disappears into the world of Arden. Lamb, Charles and Mary. Its life seems to be in the play not so much for itself as to help us understand and read its successor. There is a set of contrasts between the two worlds of this play, but the contrasts are describable not in terms of opposition of power, as in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, but in terms of attitudes of the dominant characters, as in Much Ado About Nothing, and in terms of differences in the settings and of changes in behavior for those characters who are part of both worlds. Lamb, Charles and Mary. These contrasts are easy to describe because Shakespeare points the way clearly, making each world an extreme. Our approach will be to examine the qualities of Frederick's world, then to examine the qualities of Arden, and finally out of this contrast to see how the characters behave in...
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...In this play, Duke Frederick (the younger duke) usurps his older brother, Duke Senior, and banishes him to the Forest of Arden. Frederick goes on to banish Duke Senior's daughter Rosalind. Frederick's daughter, Celia (Rosalind's cousin) flees her evil father with Rosalind and they head (along with Touchstone, the clown) to the Forest of Arden. Before leaving, though, Rosalind falls in love with Orlando and he with her after he beats Charles in a wrestling match. Orlando, the younger son of Sir Rowland, had rebelled at being kept a virtual prisoner by his older brother, Oliver. Duke Frederick and Oliver had hoped that Charles would kill or cripple Orlando in the match, but Orlando managed to throw and injure Charles. Soon after, Orlando flees his older brother, Oliver, after their servant Adam warns Orlando of Oliver's plans to kill him. Orlando and Adam also flee to the Forest of Arden. Duke Frederick, upon finding Celia, Rosalind, and Orlando missing, orders Oliver to find them, or face banishment himself. In the Forest, the cousins, disguised as Ganymede (a male) and Aliena, and the clown Touchstone purchase a shepherd's hut, a flock, and a pasture from two shepherds, Corin and Silvius. In another part of the forest, the banished Duke Senior discusses the philosophy of his melancholy courier Jaques, who is even more mad and morose than usual due to the singing of another courtier, Amiens. When Duke Senior meets him, however, Jaques is now merry, having met the clever fool,...
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...could not love me, Were man as rare as phoenix. 'Od's my will! Her love is not the hare that I do hunt: Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well, This is a letter of your own device. SILVIUS No, I protest, I know not the contents: Phebe did write it. ROSALIND Come, come, you are a fool And turn'd into the extremity of love. I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand. A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands: She has a huswife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand. SILVIUS Sure, it is hers. ROSALIND Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style. A style for-challengers; why, she defies me, Like Turk to Christian: women's gentle brain Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter? SILVIUS So please you, for I never heard it yet; Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty. ROSALIND She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes. Reads Art thou god to shepherd...
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...How does Shakespeare explore one aspect of belonging in the play? “The spirit of my father grow strong in me” In the play As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, Orlando believes that he will grow to be like his father and that he has a relational connection with his father. Shakespeare explores many aspects of belonging and not belonging in relationships with families, couples, genders and social class. He uses a wide range of dramatic and language techniques to explore the relational aspects of belonging. Juxtaposition is used throughout the play to show the difference in relationships. It shows the contrast between Oliver and Orlando’s despising relationship compared with Rosalind and Celia’s loving relationship. For example Celia and Rosalind’s relationship is described as “being ever from their cradles bred together” and “never two ladies loved as they do”. This is a contrast to Oliver calling his brother a “villein” and Oliver controlling his brother “for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I”. Juxtaposition between scenes is also used to explore relationships in As You Like It. “Loves one dearer than the natural bond of sisters”. Emotive language is used to explore how Celia and Rosalind have a very deep relationship. Words such as “loves” and “natural” explore how close they are as cousins and how they are held by one another. “Sweet my coz,” is another example of emotive language. Classical allusion is also used to show...
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...As You Like It Summary How It All Goes Down Sir Rowland de Boys has recently died, leaving behind sons Oliver and Orlando. Since Oliver's the eldest son, he's inherited just about everything. This includes the responsibility of making sure his little bro finishes school and continues to live the kind of lifestyle he's become accustomed to as the son of a nobleman. (By the way, this lifestyle looks like a sixteenth-century version of MTV's Teen Cribs.) Oliver, however, treats his little bro like a servant – he refuses to pay for Orlando's education and never gives the kid any spending money. Also, he tells the local court wrestler it would be a good idea to snap Orlando's neck, but Orlando doesn't know about this. Naturally, Orlando is ticked off that Oliver treats him so badly and he's ready to "mutiny" against his older bro. Instead, he channels all of his pent up anger into a wrestling match, where he beats the court wrestler to a bloody pulp. Orlando's wrestling skillz catch the eye of a local girl named Rosalind, who has her own family drama to worry about. (Ros is the daughter of Duke Senior, who used to rule over the French court but was overthrown by his snaky, backstabbing brother, Duke Frederick. Because Rosalind's dad is living in exile in the Forest of Arden, Rosalind has been crashing at the palace with her BFF/cousin, Celia. Did we mention that Celia is the daughter of snaky, backstabbing Duke Frederick? And you thought your family had issues…) Rosalind...
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...Through Shakespeare’s deliberate use of language in the form of listing, he is able to create several instances of positive imagery which support this passage as a piece of Pastoral Literature, as well as through spoken verse and prose. Also through Shakespeare’s use of tone, he is able to convey Duke Senior’s positive and optimistic sounding monologue as something that supports the pastoral ideal; that the country life is the ideal life. ‘Find Tongues in trees’ and ‘Sermons in stones’ and ‘Books in the running brooks’ alludes to their being knowledge in the country side; that just because the court life appears to be sophisticated with its rules, regulations and fixation on superficiality doesn’t make it the ideal life. This positive imagery then leads to the idea that the country life contains ‘good in everything’, unlike the court which is presented in this monologue as a toad, ‘ugly and venomous’. However there is mention of the ‘churlish chiding of the winter’s wind’ and the ‘icy fang’ that may deter anyone from the country life, yet Shakespeare rebuttals this with Duke Senior proclaiming that he smiles in the face of this adversity, for these complications are not complex and are plain and simple, as life should ideally be. At the end of Act 1 Scene 3, Rosalind and Celia exclaim “Now we go in content, to liberty and not banishment.” Which is immediately followed by this positive monologue by Duke Senior which wholeheartedly supports the pastoral ideas, that the country...
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...Bend It Like Beckham is about an Indian girl who comes from a strict Sikh family, and their religion and moral ethics prohibit her from following her dream of playing professional soccer. The main theme of the movie is accepting someone for who they are and following your dreams. The main character Jess, has to fight for her parents’ approval to play on the team of her dreams. The movie relates to many things we have learned about this year in class. Jess’s family tells her she must marry an Indian boy, which is a big deal as part of their religion. Jess’s mom says it’s more important to respect your elders than to play professional soccer. We have learned how important elders are in the Indian culture. Also, her mom thinks it’s more important for Jess to learn how to cook and clean for her family and persistently tries to teach Jess throughout the movie. In the Indian culture family comes first and the movie properly depicts this. I believe this film was historically accurate. The film portrayed the struggles of an Indian girl who wanted to follow her dreams, but was restricted because of her culture. The soccer coach says, “ Never seen an Indian girl into football.” Jess was the only Indian girl on her team. No one had heard of someone of her nationality participating in sports. Many Indian girls have had struggles breaking out of their cultural boundaries to follow their dreams. I disliked that the parents of Jules, a girl on Jess’s team, thought she was lesbian. That...
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...Bend It Like Beckham – Reality or Family? Do you think the reality can move along with family expectation? Probably not, because most family has their own belief and culture, and most of them is against the reality. In Bend It Like Beckham, the film by Gurinder Chadha, the protagonist named Jess is forced to face and resolve these questions. As an Indian girl, Jess must decide and find if she wants to be what she like, or she want to be the so-called ‘’proper Indian girl’, and why her family culture want her to be that way? Jess belongs to an Indian family with the strict Indian culture. In Indian culture, parents play many roles in their kid’s life; For example, some Indian family may help their kid to find their partner, called Arranged...
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...Bend It like Beckham Essay – Kayla Winship “Parents personal and religious beliefs effect an individuals life” Bend it like Beckham created by Gurinder Chadha demonstrates how parents’ guidance and personal beliefs can influence the way their child turns out in the future and what career path that they will choose. However if their child has a dream or aspiration to do their own thing and make their own choices they will do whatever it takes to get it through to their parents even if it means breaking the most important rules that guide their lives such as the rules of their religion and culture. 17 year old Jess was brought up like any normal Indian girl with a loving family in suburban England. Growing up, the choices of her westernised lifestyle would create conflict with her traditional Indian religion and culture, Jess would develop a completely opposite idea to her parents in the way she was going to live her life, her parents want her to have a hard working, good paying job but all Jess wants to do is play professional football. Every parent brings their child up with high expectations, but can these expectations jeopardise the way in which our child is brought up and change the way our children will choose their future careers. If a parent is always telling their child what they are going to do when they are older and don’t give them any freedom of choice just because the future profession is high paying and respectable the child may grow up to hating their chosen...
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...Ricardo Souto Pd.2 In the movie Bend It Like Beckham Jules loves playing soccer and dreams of one day being as good as Beckham. But there are challenges that are holding her from reaching her dream Jules dreams are more important than her culture. Firstly, Jules's dreams are more important than her culture, as they are who she is as a person. Jules does not want to be the traditional Indian girl that her parents want her to be, as her dreams are so much more open than that. Instead, Jess enters a territory that Indian girls usually never do: the soccer world. Its not everyday that you see a girl in an Indian dress, playing soccer, however, Jules's passion and drive was so strong that she bent all of the rules to play the beautiful game.It might sound surprising but it was her parents that were holding her back. Her parents never liked her playing soccer and the only thing she loved to do was to play soccer. Shes not like her sister were as she likes fashion and gossip.Which created the problem.Jules all her life has loved soccer and wants to play in the Pro league and be as good as Beckham. On the other side her mom doesn't want her playing because it interferes with her culture. The media has a great impact on people’s lives as it can be seen almost anywhere you go, it therefore influences the decisions you make to some degree. The media today can publicize humanly figures into something they are not. It also has the power to create many ideas from a key topic weather it been...
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...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9nP5V2vw4 Like Water for Chocolate Speech In Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, food is and object, theme, and a means of expressing a range of human emotions. As you start each chapter you’re given a new recipe that will carry you through the chapter with a story to go along with that recipe. The character Tita, was born because of food. “Tita was so sensitive to onions any time they were being chopped she would cry…” and “Once her wailing got so violent that it brought on early labor and Tita was born prematurely on the kitchen table.” Titas mother, Mama Elena was not able to breast feed Tita so Nacha took over for feeding Tita on a diet of teas and thin corn gruels. Growing up Tita has a strong and positive relationship with food and found “the joy of living wrapped around food” this explains how Tita developed a sixth sense about everything concerning food. Tita’s sixth sense allows her emotions go into the food she's preparing, and the food then heavily influences the plot development in the chapter The first episode where Titas sixth sense is shown is at the wedding of Pedro and Rosaura. Tita is so hurt and betrayed by Pedro the man she loves and does not know how he could marry her own sister. But Mama Elena will not let her show these feeling in front of the family so Tita is forced to suppress her emotions. Once Mama Elena leaves the kitchen, Nacha encourages Tita to release her emotions before the wedding. Finally able to...
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...The story of Like Water For Chocolate, written by Laura Esquivel, is about a girl named Tita De La Garza and her struggle to pursue true love and claim her independence. In this novel, the protagonist is Tita whereas her mother Mama Elena is an antagonist. Tita and her mother never had a strong relationship or a bond with each other and Tita ends up developing a relationship with food that gives her power to nurture and give out let to her emotions. Tita is good at cooking since she was born on the kitchen table. There is a ranch cook named Nacha, the prime caretake for Tita throughout her childhood, and provides her with the love and supports Mama Elena's family. Nacha is also the source for most of recipes in the novel. Later in March, Nacha died on the day of Rosaura's wedding. Tita has to take over Nacha's ranch cook place since she stayed closely with Nacha. Tita was happy because she became the official ranch cook; however, she feels sad because of Nancha's dead. Tita tried her best to prove that she was the best ranch cooker. According to author Elena, "Tita was the best qualified of all the women in the house to fill the vacant post in the kitchen, and in there flavors, smells textures, and the effects they could have were beyond Mama Elena's iron command."(49) Although Tita had a older sister who has never cook before. According to the book, "As the first meal that Rosaura has cooked it is not bad. Don't you agree, Pedro?"(51) Pedro bought a bouquet of roses to celebrate...
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...Year 10 English Analytical Essay “Jess faces several obstacles and challenges in Bend it like Beckham. How does the director use imagery to convey this aspect of the story?” Imagine being born into a family where cultures as well as overprotective parents stop you from following your dream. The film, Bend it like Beckham gives an insight into the life of Jesminder Bhamra, a typical Indian girl with a passion for football. Being raised in a family with a strong sense of culture, Jess was unable to achieve her main goal in life which was to pursue a professional career in football, as it went against the laws and traditions of her Indian heritage. Having overprotective parents who were raised learning the ways of a typical Indian lifestyle also made it difficult for Jess to follow her dream of playing football professionally. Director Gurinder Chadha uses film techniques such as props, camera shots, costumes, and lighting effectively to help convey the many obstacles and challenges Jess is faced with. The director uses camera shots as well as props effectively to portray the clash between the worlds of football and Jess’s Indian heritage. This is evident in the scene where Jess is practicing her skills using a cabbage, whilst her mother is cooking chapattis and getting irritated at her for not being able to cook a full traditional Indian dinner. Instead of paying any attention as to how to cook a traditional meal, she uses the cabbage as a soccer ball to practice...
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...parents tolerated her sports passion when she was younger, they now believe she should become serious about her life and prepare for the future. That means giving up "children's games" for cooking lessons, marriage, and university studies. They forbid her from playing any more. An Indian girl should not play soccer, since the game consists of "displaying your bare legs to complete strangers." The preparations for her sister's wedding only underscore the liabilities of Jess's unladylike behavior. After watching this movie I realized that in parenting you have to be flexible, strict, and do some discipline. You teach, and talk to you child about rules, and if those rules are broken what the consequences will be. You explain to them what it was like when you grew up and how life is now, because times are changing and you must accommodate to those changes also. Always let your children know that they can always come to you know matter what and talk to you. By doing this you listen and you do not judge them by the things that they might say. Be there for your child no matter what he/she turns out to be in life. The way you raise your child, will be passed on through them to their children and so on. The way that Jess had to secretly join Jules' competitive women's soccer team, and how she was forced to lead a double life in order to not disappoint her parents, shows that she cannot be honest with her parents, and to me, being able to come to your parents with...
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...Like Water For Chocolate is an extremely important piece of literature because it came at a time of tension between Mexican Americans and Americans. It is a controversial time between the cultures as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which promoted free trade among Canada, Mexico and the United States, in which tensions arose between U.S. citizens and Mexican immigrants. This trade deal causes alienation of the Mexican population because Americans saw them as taking their job security away from them. With the books outrageous popularity among readers, it was converted into a film, directed by Alfonso...
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