Evan Galdeen
Professor Fike
ENGL 305
4 December 2017
is interesting that the scene in the forest with the lion and
beliefs of the time the play was written, I will argue that in
biblical one.
briefly mentioning that she is glad that Orlando did not leave
innocent” when Orlando “turned the other cheek” and saved his
lioness and the snake (Daley 177). The next article, The Place
Latham suggests that the snake and the lioness which menace
‘slides away, Oliver’s envy melts, and his wrath goes with the
either side of this line, with the outlier being the Some of
Laura Vogel wrote As You Like It: A Dream Play, which interprets
The brothers encounter with the snake and the lioness takes
very first scene that they have issues, stemming from both the
more evidence for this after he recounts the story. Celia asks
which makes him regard them as rivals, how are we to explain his
death wishes against his parents, who surround him with love and
fulfil his needs whose preservation that same egoism should lead
and their rivalry, Orlando makes the right choice and saves his
desire to let his brother die and saving him instead. Laura
121)
The phallic ideas here relate directly to the encounter with the
snake:
neck when they first met is mirrored here by the snake wreathed
very sexual image in and of itself. Though by the time the play
the way. The battle with the lion and the snake changes their
it sees Orlando, the snake slips under the bush where the
“heart leaps within her as she learns that, conquering the first
brother die. Freud has little to say on the lioness [and nothing
only does Orlando get his inheritance, but Oliver finds love.
about first time sex and the defeat of the lion. This
Works Cited
Cirillo, Albert R. “As You Like It: Pastoralism Gone Awry.” ELH, vol.
www.jstor.org/stable/2869832.
343–94.
Valas, www.valas.fr/IMG/pdf/Freud_Complete_Works.pdf.
Vogel, Laura B. “As You Like It: a Dream Play.” PsyArt Journal, 2016,
journal.psyart.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PsyArt-2016-
Article-8-L-Vogel.pdf.