Ms. Peifer
10IB English 5th Hour
March 16, 2009
In Act 1 of As You Like It by Shakespeare there is a very prominent idea of Court versus Country. Though it is not said directly to others, there are comments or conversations where the Court feels they are a better society than the Country. The Court banishes people to the Country as an exile, and they see this as a major punishment. They are false ideas that the Court has about those who do live in the Country, and the theme of Court versus Country, is a theme that will go on throughout the book. The Court feels that the Country is a place of criminals, and bad people because that is where all the exiled are. This theme gives the book a underlying conflict, that shows the personalities of the characters.
La Beau is speaking with his friend Orlando, and says that Rosalind cannot be good -mannered because her father was banished, and he lives in the Country. He says to Orlando, "Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners"(1.2.272). This shows how the Court looks down upon what the Country does, that they cannot be well mannered because they live in the trees. The people of the Country are seen as those who are but ill educated and who are not respectable in society. Duke Frederick once again demonstrates that the Court believes exile to be of the worst because they have to live in the forest, he says, "So near our public court as twenty miles, thou diest for it"(1.3.45). The Duke thinks that Rosalind will be so scared of the people that she will try to escape and come back to the Court. He thinks that the people who live in the Country are savages, who do not deserve anything but the criminals who are exiled.
Celia expresses the idea she has in her mind as people who live in the Country when she says, "I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face"(1.3.117-118). She has this idea that the people in the Country wear beaten up clothes, and are not clean people, and that is why she is going to have to dress down, and look like a "forest" person.
The theme of Court versus Country gives another conflict which at the end of the play will be solved. The people who reside in the Court have a mental idea that the Country is an awful place that no on will ever want to go to, but in reality many who are exiled see it as liberty.
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