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"Love Is Made of Sighs and Tears"

Summary: As You Like It is remarkable among Shakespeare's comedy plays for ending with four marriages. Love is the central theme of the play. Through his characters, he shows his viewpoint about love.
As you like it is remarkable among Shakespeare's comedy plays for ending with four marriages. Love is the central theme of the play. Through his characters, he shows his viewpoint about love. I am going to comment Silvius's quote when he was asked what love is like to be "it is to be all made of sighs and tears" base on two couples: Orlando-Rosalind and Silvius-Phebe.

Sigh and tear are signals of disappointment and sadness. We can see most of the characters in "As you like it" have miserable love situations. Rosalind and Orlando fall in true love at first sight and then they live separately by the court. Rosalind must risk everything if she wants to pursue her love. She leaves without either father or her lover to rely on. What a pity for her! A young woman has to rely on herself in a forest with...

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