As You Like It

Drama | William Shakespeare

Describe the Silvius Phebe Rosalind subplot in “As You Like It.”

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Briefly describe the Silvius Phebe Rosalind subplot in As You Like It nbsp William Shakespeare - is the most influential English dramatist He creates not only bold and remarkable heroines but also interesting subplots in his plays The Silvius-Phoebe-Rosalind subplot is such an interesting story in the famous romantic comedy As You Like It Silvius's Love for Phoebe In the Forest of Arden a young shepherd named Silvius is madly in love with Phoebe But Phoebe a shepherdess does not care about Silvius she is rude to him and laughs at his feelings Silvius keeps chasing her anyway He writes sad love poems for her He calls her O Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Here Silvius repeats her name as if his whole world revolves around her So the audience feels pity for Silvius s addiction to Phoebe Phoebe's Love for Ganymede One day Rosalind disguised as a boy named Ganymede meets

Silvius and Phoebe When Phoebe sees Ganymede she instantly falls in love with him Now Silvius loves Phoebe and Phoebe loves Ganymede Phoebe even sends Silvius to deliver a love letter to Ganymede Rosalind warns Phoebe I pray you do not fall in love with me Phoebe's love for Ganymede makes it a laughable hilarious love triangle Rosalind's Clever Plan Rosalind as Ganymede realizes the situation and decides to teach Phoebe a lesson She promises to marry Phoebe if she wants to marry Ganymede however Phoebe must marry Silvius if she does not want to marry Ganymede Happy Ending and Marriage In the end Rosalind reveals her true identity Phoebe realizes she cannot marry Ganymede since he is actually a woman hence she must marry Silvius This subplot ends happily with Silvius s love rewarded and all misunderstandings cleared To wrap up this interesting subplot shows how people act foolishly when they are in love Rosalind s cleverness solves the problems In the end true love wins

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