As You Like It LRJ 3

This act puts a lot of emphasis on the difference between country versus court. As like the previous acts the court believe that the country is a place where there are savages and they pretty much do whatever they feel like. Court feel as though the forest is a scary place and if you were to join them you wouldn't ever feel like coming back. Another thing it brings up is the loyalty that the court shares and also their corruption. "I never loved my brother in my life"(3.1.14). This was said by Oliver saying the he never loved his brother which shows that the higher class people seem to not care about family as much and are a tyrant just trying to reach for more power. People in the country on the other hand are like one big family who care for each other and very loving. One quote said by Corin "he wants money,means, and content is without three good friends"(3.2.25), what he says here is that people in the court seem to prefer money and greed over friends, which was said earlier. Touchstone admires that about Corin that in the fields there is a lot more respect then get gets at the court. Also the argument goes on with Corin and Touchstone about the differences in the court and in the country. Touchstone says "is thou never saw-st good manners,then thy must be wicked,and wickedness is sin"(3.2.40-44). Touchstone says that if people in the country were to go to the court the people would think of them as ill-mannered and since they are ill mannered it would lead to something else which could be close to sin. Corin argues with Touchstone the same concept that if people of the court would come to the country they would think of us differently and the country would think of them as a person without freedom. Between the two of them it shows a lot about how the differences of the two compare with each other.