Comedy Romantic Love

I enjoyed reading the play. There are many interesting parts about this play. I particularly enjoyed the famous quote by Jaques about how the world is a stage. “Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” I was just reading some article about the sky burial, a funerary practice in Tibet where the body was feed to birds. The traveler was fortune enough to witness the actual practice and wrote about her feelings when observing human body got dismembered. “Everything we care about was empty, was nothing”, she wrote, and it was a very spiritual experience about letting go and forgiveness. Then when I read to this part where the seven ages ends with oblivion, I thought “exactly!” It was somewhat unrelated to the theme of the play but yet so dramatically true. There are many small characters in Shakespeare’s play, some even only show for one act or less, I find myself struggle with such set up earlier but gradually I find the necessarily of those characters, like here the Jaques told the truth about life.

I also enjoyed the love story. I particularly laughed out when Orlando said “for ever and a day” and Rosalind said “say ‘a day’ without the ‘ever’.” The judgment Shakespeare made hundreds ago about marriage is unfortunately, accurate.

One thing kept me away from really like this comedy is the last act. It was almost too comedy, everyone ends with delight. Right after the couples get married, the other good news just came: the old duke return to the crown. It felt too on purpose, lacking some necessary transactions between those two events. Nevertheless, I truly enjoyed reading the play.