As You Like It

Love is a strange thing in viewing the characters of Rosalind and Orlando. Rosalind sees her feeling for Orlando as a way to exert her independence.... to take control of her own life. The couple plays at love, and Rosalind assumes the role of pursuer, she controls their courting in direct contrast to the expectations of the time. She also determines to instruct Orlando in the meaning of love.... real love, not merely infatuation or visions of the ideal.