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What we see at the end of the play “As You Like It” all the major characters of the play whether it is Rosalind and Orlando or Celia and Oliver or the Duke Senior and Duke Ferdinand all are get united. Theme of reconciliation and forgiveness can be seen at the end of play. The theme of happy reunion is also an another aspects of this play because we see in the last of the play that the daughter, Miranda meet to his exiled father and also meet with his passionate lover Orlando.at the end of the play Duke Ferdinand realises his follies and to apologise for that with his brother Senior Duke, and the senior duke forgives Orlando. In most of the plays of William Shakespeare we see the happy ending at the end of the play which makes the play a blending of romanticism and these type of plays are known as Romantic comedy, is a creation of William Shakespeare only. Before the end of this play a marriage ceremony has been organised which has been used as a dramatic technique by Shakespeare. Suc...

The theme of innocence can be seen through the eyes of Miranda whereas the theme of experience can be seen through the eyes of Prospero. Miranda  is a pure child of Nature like Wordsworth’s Lucy, “ created of every creature’s best .” She is the only woman character in the play. Her name is the equivalent of ‘the wonderful one’ or ‘the one who causes admiration’ and her name is symbolic of her beauty, innocence and modesty. When the play opens Miranda is almost fifteen and for the previous twelve years, she has lived on the island and has known only Prospero and Caliban.   The striking feature of her character is her “ soft simplicity, her virgin innocence, her total ignorance of the conventional forms and language of society. It is most natural that in a being thus constituted the first tears should spring from compassion, suffering with those that she saw suffer; and that her first sigh should be offered to a love at once fearless and submissive, delicate and fond. She h...

Why doesn't Faustus sign his contract with Lucifer at once? His blood congeals, and he thus runs out of "ink" to sign the contract. Faustus asks: "What might the staying of my blood portend? / Is it unwilling I should write this bill?" (Scene 5, lines 64–65)