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Character study of Rosalind from As You Like It.
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Michael Gallagher AP English Literature Ms. Garforth August 31, 2004 Rosalind, throughout William Shakespeare's As You Like It, uses her ability to control language to attain her goals. Using creative speech, Rosalind enables herself to control and manipulate every situation that she is involved with, especially those concerning Orlando and Phoebe. Rosalind dominates many scenes in As You Like It and, ultimately, everything that Rosalind wants to occur does. She even changes her identity to do so. By using ingenious language, Rosalind facilitates the accomplishment of all of her objectives throughout the play. The first situation in which Rosalind displays her dominance in language is in the Forest of Ardenne, disguised as Ganymede, a male. She, knowing that Orlando is yearning for her love, comments on his obvious unrequited love, saying, "Then there is no true lover in the forest; else sighing every minute and groaning every hour would detect the...
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