As You Like It : Summary

Summary

Conflict between Oliver and Orlando: The play begins with Orlando’s quarrel with his brother, Oliver, after his father’s death. Orlando inherited most of their property. But Oliver wants to possess all the possessions alone. Because of this, Orlando asks his older brother how he could do this to him. Orlando gets into an argument with Oliver about it and leaves.

Duke Senior’s Deportation: Just at that moment, Charles appeared to Oliver. Charles tells Oliver that Duke Senior has been usurped by his younger brother, Duke Frederick, who has banished him from the kingdom to the Forest of Arden. However, his elder brother’s daughter Rosalind was not forbidden because Frederick’s daughter Celia and Rosalind are very good friends. Celia cannot live without Rosalind.

Wrestling Competition: Charles also tells Oliver he has a wrestling competition with Orlando tomorrow. He tells Oliver that if Orlando participates in the wrestling match tomorrow, he will only die for Charles. Oliver, meanwhile, wanted Orlando to die while wrestling and then enjoy all the property alone. So, he tells Charles that Orlando told him he will beat Charles in the wrestling match tomorrow anyway.

Meanwhile, Rosalind is upset because her father, Duke Senior, has been banished from the kingdom. Celia comforts her in pain and tells her that her father, Frederick, is like Rosalind’s father. At this time, a servant informed them that a young man named Orlando would be wrestling today with a terrible professional wrestler like Charles. Hearing this, they get very worried and go to the wrestling competition place. They try to convince Orlando that he should not join the competition because Charles is a terrible wrestler.

But Orlando ignores them, jumps into the competition, and surprisingly defeats Charles. At that time, Rosalind and Celia were talking about Orlando, and Celia told Rosalind that Rosalind might be in love with Orlando. 

Deportation order to Rosalind: Just then, Celia’s father, Duke Frederick, enters and orders Rosalind to leave the kingdom immediately. At that time, Celia tells her don’t worry; we both will leave this kingdom. The two disguised themselves and then went to the Forest of Arden. Rosalind disguises herself as a boy and names him Ganymede. They are accompanied by a clown boy named Touch Stone. They go into the forest of Arden, where Duke Senior lives in the camp.

The lifestyle of Duke Senior in Deportation: When he was driven out into the forest, a few trusted friends also moved into the forest with him. However, they enjoyed having a perfect time in the forest. 

Investigation of Celia by Duke Frederick: Meanwhile, Duke Frederick hears that his daughter Celia has gone into the forest with Rosalind and captured Oliver. Because Frederick thinks Rosalind has run off into the woods with Oliver’s younger brother Orlando, and Celia is with them. Duke Frederick tells Oliver to get his younger brother Orlando from wherever he can, or you have no defense. So, he was forced to head into the forest to find his younger brother.

Arrival of Orlando in the forest of Arden:  The truth is that Orlando realizes that his older brother Oliver is plotting to kill him. So, he fled long ago to the Forest of Arden. Orlando was accompanied by a friend, Adam, into the forest. Orlando, on the other hand, came across a group of Duke seniors while searching for food. He mistreated them as savages and asked them for food for him and his friend. But Duke Senior spoke to him very gently and helped him with food, which caused Orlando’s mistake to be smashed. 

Arrival of Rosalind in the forest of Arden: On the other hand, Rosalind and Celia both come in disguise with touch breasts and rent a place to stay in the forest from two shepherds. At this moment, almost all the significant characters of this play are staying in the forest. Orlando’s love for Rosalind awakened during his time in the forest, and he began to write poems for Rosalind on trees in the forest.

When Rosalind and Celia saw these poems, they wondered who could write poems for Rosalind in the forest. Orlando meets Celia by chance, and they recognize Orlando, but Orlando doesn’t recognize them because they are disguised. At one point, they invited Orlando to their house. They ask Orlando how much Orlando loves Rosalind, and Orlando says a lot.

So anyway, that’s how Orlando keeps going back and forth to Rosalind and Celia’s house. Meanwhile, Oliver is looking for his brother in the forest when a lion suddenly attacks him; just then, Orlando sees it and saves his brother from the lion, who gets injured. He then passes a blood-stained handkerchief to his brother Oliver to go to Rosalind and tell him that Orlando cannot come today because he is injured. Oliver returns from Rosalind’s house and tells Orlando that he has fallen in love with Celia and wants to marry her. 

Oliver’s arrival at the Forest of Arden: Meanwhile, Rosalind and Celia arrive after hearing the news of the injury. At one point in their conversation, Oliver and Celia agreed that they would get married the next day.

Test of Orlando’s love by Rosalind: Rosalind tests Orlando in various ways to test the depth of his love for her. At one point in the episode, Rosalind tells Orlando in disguise that she knows a spell that can bring Rosalind here. Orlando then tells her that it’s okay if she brings Rosalind. Meanwhile, Duke Senior receives news that a prophet is coming to take out his daughter, Rosalind. So, he also arrives on the scene, and Rosalind and Celia leave their disguises and come there in their real face.

Duke Senior gets news that Duke Frederick is approaching the forest with a force to attack them, but he takes refuge with a saint on the way.  Then,  he renounces his evil ways and gives all his possessions to Duke Senior. Finally, Rosalind, Orlando, Oliver, and Celia’s weddings take place in the forest in front of everyone. Thus, the drama As You Like It ends with a happy ending.