Mr_Shank

For people in my group, you definately have to read and comment this blog.

In my previous connections, I related this play to Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet. I’m not sure what else to relate this blog to now because there’s not too many things that are similar to As You Like It.

I guess what I will connect this to is pretty much everyday life. There are many fights over the inheritance of a deceased family member. And normally an older child or family member receives the inheritance. This obviously causes a lot of conflict and bad feelings between close families. But Oliver and Orlando’s story is quite different.

It seems like Oliver takes his internal hate of his brother to an extreme. He not only shares none of the fortune, but he practically disowns his brother in the beginning. He is unwilling to accept his brother and is full of himself because he believes his age entitles him to treat his brother terribly.

Therefore, this poem can be related to everyday life. I kind of think that Shakespeare wrote it to relate it to life, but made his plays a lot more entertaining and full of drama.

My questions for you are:

What was your reaction to the ending of this play?

Do you think that Orlando and Oliver could have mended the troubles before they escalated?

(these questions aren’t hard at all………because it’s the end of the school year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

~Laurisa : )

Okay, for everyone in my group this post does not apply to you so you don’t have to comment this. I am posting this because I never got a chance to do it on time so I’m not going to ask any questions so whoever is reading this other than Mr. Shank can stop reading now. : )

So this play is actually not half bad. It’s kind of short (a lot shorter than Romeo and Juliet) and it pretty much gets to the point of the story without too much detail of little unimportant events.

So I can connect this play to 2 things that I was thinking about when I was reading it.

The first thing is Cinderella. Orlando is treated like a peasant from his older brother Oliver. This relates to Cinderella because once her father dies his wife receives his fortune and she becomes the slave of her step mother and 2 step sisters. Oliver is the older brother who received the fortune of their father once he passed away. Orlando from then on was taken over by his brother and treated like Adam, the old slave that was in the family for many years. Orlando works out with all the peasants and slaves and is not treated any better than dirt. His brother is very selfish and seems so embarrassed by his brother that he refuses to treat him with respect. He also keeps Orlando from proper schooling, and is quite overwhelmed to know that without schooling or proper living his brother has the capability of being a witty man. This relates to Cinderella because she is kept from the ball and not allowed to show herself and the person she really is to the Prince. However, he godmother gets her there and without too much experience with gentlemen, she wins the Prince’s heart.

I also related this to Romeo and Juliet. This is not as good of a connection but I found a couple examples that show the similarities between this play and Romeo and Juliet. The first thing that I found matched Romeo and Juliet was the fact the Rosalind’s father is exiled from the city. Right away I thought of how Romeo was exiled from Verona because he killed Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. Another simliarity I found was the fact that there’s a character named Rosalind, who is the love of Orlando. This isn’t as good of a connection, because Romeo gets over Rosalind in Romeo and Juliet quickly when he meets Juliet where as Orlando’s only love is Rosalind.

So, that concludes my blogs that are quite late. I’m hoping to get at least something better than a D or an F. I’m very sorry that this is so late and I hope that you aren’t in a bad mood while grading this, Mr. Shank. : )

~Laurisa