Eng 3 - Characters Play More Than Just a Role in Life - as You like It by William Shakespeare

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As You Like It: A Modern Perspective is an article written by Susan Snyder that displays her views on the the play As You Like It. Susan Snyder claims that the characters in As You Like It rather go through roles in the play of life, and the turnout is the four marriages. This means that she believes the characters did not change throughout the play. Much disagreement can be made with her view on the comedy play because as the play goes on, it is clearly shown that the characters develop and become more than they were in the beginning. It is clear that their roles in the play of life change when they get banished into the woods. In the woods, their whole outlook on life changes, which then effects their life, and overall effects the world, which Susan Snyder does not believe happens.

Jacques’ famous speech can be proved to be false with many examples from the play itself. Even though William Shakespeare wrote As You Like It to be a comedy, true meaning can come from it. Jacques’ speech is one that brings question and controversy to the play than can be interpreted in many different ways. As You Like It shows that all people play more than just a role in the overall play of the world by making everything in the play fit perfectly together. This is the comedic part of the play. In the real world, nothing fits together perfectly. Everyone changes the world around them in different ways. Even if it is just one person’s life that is being changed, their changed life can go on to change many more which leads to a change in the world started by just one person.

Work Cited

Shakepeare, William. “As You Like It”. Ed Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. Washington Square Press, 1997. Print.

Snyder, Susan. “As You Like It: A Modern Perspective” Print. 231-242