As You Like It Shakespeare
As You Like It The love of Rosalind and Orlando compared to that of Touchstone and Audrey highlights the complexity of love in contrasting both its realistic and idealistic nature. Shakespeare’s intent was to show that Rosalind and Orlando’s love was essentially unlike that of Audrey and Touchstone. ... As You Like It addresses the Petrarchan love that is common in the idealistic fascination with love. ... Shakespeare uses Rosalind to mock this extreme act of love, though later Rosalind embraces the beauty that such romanticism has in the world. ... His marriage proposal’s seriousness of dedication can be summed up in his response to why he does not prefer a priest to perform the wedding ceremony: I am not in the mind but I were better to be married of him than of another, for he is not like to marry me well; and not being well married, it will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife.