As You Like It
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In the play As You Like It, William Shakespeare uses satire to raise questions concerning the traditional concept of love. This is characterized by the behavior of the characters as they try to woo one another. If we look at the actions of Touchstone as he woos the dull-witted Audrey, how Oliver woos Celia, the shepherd Silvius wooing Phebe, Phebe’s attempts at wooing Rosalind as well as the romance that takes place between Orlando and Rosalind we can see what it is about these actions of love Shakespeare is trying to satirize.One of the aspects of love that Shakespeare satirizes is the enormous pain that the characters feel when they are in love. They usually spend an enormous amount of time declaring how much they suffer in love. Orlando only needs to look at the face of his love to feel pain:
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