Character Of Rosalind In Shakespeare's The Fool

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Characters The play was primarily for performance and Shakespeare knew the actors who would play the roles. So he often developed characters with a specific actor in mind. The Fool is often a singer and musician as well as a poet. Especially in comedy he uses a lot of type characters to highlight themes and to satirise. Rosalind - She is considered one of Shakespeare’s most delightful heroines, independent minded, strong-willed. Rosalind resourcefully uses her trip to the Forest as an opportunity to take control of her own destiny. As Ganymede—a young man—she offers to tutor Orlando in the ways of love thus expressing herself in a way she would not have been able to do as a woman of the Elizabethan era. Rosalind’s experiences in disguise provide the main delights of the play. Rosalind is also able to express a deep philosophy – e.g. the foolishness of romantic love and the delight to be in love. It is as if along with Jacques the …show more content…

As the mood of a character changes, they may change from one medium to the other in mid-scene. Jaques cuts off a prose dialogue with Rosalind because Orlando enters, using verse: "Nay then, God be with you, a you talk in blank verse" (4.1.29). The defiance of convention is continued when the epilogue is given in prose. Extended Metaphors – In Act I, Shakespeare personifies Fortune and Nature in order to convey a central theme of the play: that Fortune and Nature often work at odds. The extended metaphors, in the form of personifications, occur in Scene II in a discussion of Fortune and Nature between Celia and Rosalind: . CELIA. Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from /her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally. ROSALIND I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women. CELIA 'Tis true; for those that she makes fair she

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