As You Like It, The Passionate shepherd to His Love, and The Nymphs Re

Contrasting As You Like It, The Passionate sheepherder to His Love, and The Nymphs reception to the Shepherd The coarse settings in Shakespe ares As You Like It, The Passionate ward to His Love by Christopher Marlowe, and The Nymphs resolve to the Shepherd by Sir Walter capital of North Carolina jointly portray contrasting ideas about nature. Marlowe idealizes pastoral life while Raleighs every last(predicate)y piece shows its oppose aspects. As You Like It explores both the positive and negative qualities. Pastoral settings conventionally carry the connotation of a nurturing and wholesome environment, alike to the philosophical ideas of the superiority of a natural man. In nature, there are different rules from society in which things work together for a common land good. In As You Like It, Orlando, thinking that nature is savage, pulls his sword and demands victuals of the disposed duke. What Orlando finds is that nature is less savage than civilization. Duke Senior, wh o promises to give Orlando all that he has, describes the splendor and bounty of nature with tongues in trees and books in the running brooks. The beg comes to the pasture, seeking food, clothing, and shelter, and finds fulfillment there. A shepherd, who resembles the chivalric Duke Senior taking business organization of his flock, protects the animals in his care just as nature provides him with food, clothing, and shelter. A shepherds wife must support and help take care of the shepherd. Marlowes passionate shepherd tries to woo his love by promising the best wool from our beauteous lambs, beautiful fields in which to reflect, beds of roses to sleep on, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle/ Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle. She will also have Fair-lined slippers for the col... ... to the shepherd if she accepted his proposal. regular(a) though Phebe settles for Silvius, when she finds out Ganymede is really a woman, her happiness is only bitter-sweet. The pastoral scenes in As You Like It and in the companion poems by Marlowe and Raleigh show nature as a refuge with wonderful mysteries, a place of infectious love, and still a cruel, savage place. Nature is all of these things, an amalgam of mixed blessings, which in differing contexts may be both in force(p) and deceptively vicious. Works Cited Marlowe, Christopher. The Passionate shepherd to His Love. Various versions have been consulted. Raleigh, Walter. The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd. Various versions have been consulted. Shakespeare, William. As You Like It. New York Dover Publications. 1998. either quotations are from this text.