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AYLI Themes (Love (qualities: (capacity to transgress social order (more…

- - - - more powerful than humanity
  - - - pursuing romantic projections, rather than the real thing
      - Rosalind acknowledges this distinction & dramatises a satirical image of herself to Orlando
    - - In this case, Hymen = formidable force of resolution
      - short-term solution to problem of tragic love?
      - control of human sexuality by law - everything before this is unregularised?
      - Touchstone & Audrey: practical means of having sex in respectable manner
    - - how society formulated expectations for love & desire
  - - - pursuit of power ultimately less power than love (for family/God)
  - - - symbiotic relation between art & life.
- - - - draws attention to life & playacting of characters
        
        'All the world's a stage'
    - - agency
      - anonymity
      - safety
    - - costume creates pretend world for audience
- - - - Jaques perspective? Does the play support this?
  - - - reducing gender to clothes you wear; arbitrary
- - - - lacks wisdom & quickness of expression
      - out of place in court company, retreats to monastic existence at end of play.
    - - Orlando's poems
      - Rosalind & Oliver fall in love instantly
      - manifestation of an irrational state of extreme emotion.