AS YOU LIKE IT 

- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

CHARACTER SKETCH OF ROSALIND IN AS YOU LIKE IT .

CHARACTER SKETCH OF ROSALIND 


Rosalind is a sweet creation. She is the sweetest of Shakespeare's heroines. She is known for her wit and wisdom. she is majestic like Cleopatra. She is modest as Lucretia. She is good looking as Helen. And she is wise as Atlanata. She is more then common tall. She loves her father most dearly. She is sad that he is sent away. She does not take part in any extra ordinary pleasure. She likes Celia and can do anything for her. They eat together and play together. They sleep together and grow  together. And thus they are like Juno's swans. 

Charles, the Wrestler, throws a challenge. Orlando, the brave accepted it . But Rosalind is all pity for him. She finds Orlando too young and too innocent. She volunteers to get the match dropped. She wants Orlando to be fast like Hercules. She wants him to take away all her strength. She is happy that Charles his over thrown. She gives Orlando a chain as a token of Love and Honour. And they both fall in Love at first sight. To Orlando she is the "Sweetest Nut". He finds her to be the "Sweetest Rose". Duke Frederick asks  Rosalind to go away. He wants her to go away in Ten days. He wants her to go Twenty miles away from the palace. She ask whether she has displaced him. She tells that her father is not a tyrant. Her decision to leave the palace and improving Celia's idea of disguise shows her Intelligence.

Rosalind gets herself disguised as a Shepherd. She calls herself Ganymede. She and Celia walk miles and miles. They reach the Forest of Arden after a tiresome journey. Celia is hungry and Rosalind is all pity for her. Orlando can not recognize her at all. She wants him to imagine her to be Rosalind. He comes late every morning and she is sad and angry . She helps Oliver to marry  Celia. She gets Silvius reunited with Phebe. She binds Touchstone and Audrey in a wedlock. She is happily married to Orlando, her Dream-Boy. In short Rosalind's Love for Orlando and what she makes of it is the play.

Audience of As You Like It do like the character very much.

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