As You Like It lRJ 2

In act two there is a big point of view about country versus court. In the court they believe that the country dwellers are those of savages. Those living in the country seem to think differently as well. "More free from peril then the envious court"(2.1.4) this was said by Duke Senior who was usurped and doesn't seem to mind at all. He enjoys being in the country he says it more free and to them the court is just to complicated and confusing. Though they have been banished unharmed they are and living their life free as they desire.
Also in the act Orland and Adam go into the woods and starts to crave crazily for food. Soon they are given food by Duke Senior and his men and it shows that the side of the country being a place where help was a necessity to keep their society was alive. Throughout the book the court always think themselves as a place of higher being as in being more sophisticated and intellectual. But that is not that idea that Amiens believes he says "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books, in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything"(2.1. 15-16)what he says here is that even though they are not allowed back to the court they found nature to be as educational as books and they use sermons in stones. Simply Shakespeare is saying that brains doesn't come from books itself because books come from people who usually write stuff down from their observations in nature. The court versus country seems to get more in dept now as the story goes on it could mean an allusion to how story progresses in the end.