How Does Shakespeare Show Orlando and Rosalind Change in the Course of "As You Like It"

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How does Shakespeare show Orlando and Rosalind change in the course of “As You Like It” At the start of “As You Like It”, both Orlando and Rosalind are at the court, so they are both restricted by the rules and commands that are a necessary part of life at the court. Shakespeare shows this by making the first few scenes of the play, until they run away to the forest, very serious despite the play being a comedy. Orlando is very angry and resentful towards his older brother Oliver trapping him and making him stay at home and do servant’s work. He is determined to break free and says that he feels the “spirit of [his] father” inside him, and it wants to “mutiny against this servitude”. His desire to “mutiny” against Oliver makes him quite violent and aggressive at the beginning of the play; he starts a fight against Oliver in act I scene 1 (“Wilt thou lay hands on me villain?”) and wrestles against Charles in act I scene 2, knocking him unconscious (“He cannot speak”). This makes him seem ungentlemanlike and violent, creating a contrast between his character at the end of the play. Rosalind is also unhappy at the start of the play, although less so than Orlando. She has remained at the court without her father, which makes her unhappy. She reveals this when Celia asks her to be happier and she replies “unless you could teach me to forget a banished father, you must not learn how to remember any extraordinary pleasure”, which expresses how sad she feels to be at court while her father is banished. However, despite this, she still cheers up fairly quickly then shows an interest in falling in love by saying “what think you of falling in love?” to Celia. She cheers up further when Le Beau comes to tell her and Celia about the wrestling and she is enthusiastic to watch it, which makes her quite adventurous for a woman of the time, and asks if there is “any else
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