As You Like It LRJ 5

In this final act there was realization between the rich and the poor. Unlike all the previous acts this one has the least amount of rivalry against the country versus the court theme. The act starts off by Touchstone and William and their conversation. Touchstone then asks William whether he was born in the forest. This illusion was thought to be Touchstone bad mouthing him but actually turned out to be sincere this means a balance between the country and the court. Also the two, court and court, starts to mesh together and the theme of country vs. court goes away because they have heard the stories of each other and now think themselves as people just trying to live their own lives. From then on you can tell that the people living in the are more accepting of the people living in the country. Touchstone himself has changed. He doesn't see them as he did in act 3 or previous chapters where he thought that were close to savages and uneducated. Now he sees that they are people just like him and people living at the court. "But, my good lord, this boy is forest- born And hath been tutored in the rudiments Of many desperate studies by his uncle"(5.4.31-33). Orland says this to Duke Senior explaining that even though that guy is forest born he is amazed to find out the amount of knowledge that boy knows. In the end it all works out perfectly. Court versus isn't as big of a problem as it was before and there is a happy ending to this book afterall.