As You Like It Mallory Stickler
This time, I’m going to follow Rosalind. She becomes madly in love with Orlando and she still barely knows him. But more importantly, Rosalind really digs herself a hole in the last potion of this book. She is her normal self and she says that Ganymede will marry Phoebe, but Ganymede is actually Rosalind. Rosalind (as Ganymede) wants to continue to with her wooing sessions with Orlando, even though he is tired of trying to get over Rosalind by wooing a man. I though this part of the book was pretty confusing because Rosalind makes a whole bunch of promises.
On the day of the weddings, Rosalind is to marry Orlando, Touchstone is to marry Audrey, Oliver is to marry Celia, and Phoebe is to marry Ganymede. If Phoebe choses not to marry Ganymede, she will marry Silvius. Everybody realizes that Ganymede looks a lot like Rosalind and they draw the conclusions that he is Rosalind. So, Phoebe ends up marrying Silvius. The four couples get married all together in one ceremony. All is well and everyone is happy, especially since there is peace with Duke Frederick and Jaques.
First, why do you think Rosalind thought she could pull off being Ganymede and herself? She made promises that were impossible to keep, like being two people at one time.
Also, it doesn’t seem like anyone is mad at Rosalind for lying and being deceitful. Why do you think this is?
Mallory
Category: Character Watcher 3 comments »
May 25th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I think that Rosalind was just thinking of herself, and not thinking of the consequences. When i was reading i was wondering how comes no one was really noticing that Rosalind disappeared and now suddenly theres some new guy in town. Back then the towns were really small and someone would notice if someone new were to show up out of no where.
Also, i’m not completely sure why no one was angry at Rosalind. Of course Orlando wasn’t going to be angry because he wanted to marry Rosalind from the beginning, but Phoebe thought that she was going to marry Ganymede and early she was insulting Silvius like crazy. Then just like that she decides to settle for Silvius, and isn’t angry that some girl was pretending to be the man of her dreams? I actually saw a major cat fight about to go down and was disappointed when it didn’t.
Adam Lough
May 25th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Ahhhhhhhhhh (not yelling but in a soft, gentle sort of way)
No one knew that Rosalind was two people because the author didn’t put that much thought into the play. I will use the analogy again. Asking those questions is like asking why the Hobbits of the Shire did not march to Helms Deep to help defend it from attack. The author just didn’t put that much thought into it. I think that we are looking down 10ft into a pool that is only 5ft.
Brian Wawrzyniak
May 26th, 2009 at 6:36 am
I guess she thought it would be funny and entertaining to be two people at one time. I don’t think anyone was mad at her because they ended up finding out that Rosalind was pretending to be someone she wasn’t before it had any damage on any of the weddings.
~Laurisa