How does Shakespeare establish a contrast between the world of the court and the world of the forest in the first three acts?
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How does Shakespeare establish a contrast between the world of the court and the world of the forest in the first three acts? In the first three acts we learn that the forest is where the characters flee to when they have been banished out of the court if they have done wrong. We also learn that the court is very superior; therefore we immediately think that it is a much more comfortable and safer environment. However we learn that this is not entirely true, and that sometimes Shakespeare has steered us away from believing this; Shakespeare, in the first three acts, has managed to create an unexpected contrasted between the court and the forest. At the beginning of Act 2 Scene 1 we find that duke Senior, Amiens, the first and second Lord have arrived in the forest of Arden. Surprisingly enough they are in a cheerful mood....


