Friday, January 10, 2014

What is Audrey feeling towards Touchstone in Act 3 of As You Like It? What is his feeling toward her? Explain in full details.

Touchstone-Audrey love-couple is one amoung the four love couples in the story “as you like it”.


Love between Touchstone and Audrey is without romance, idealism, and glamour.


Audrey is ugly, but honest and hence thanks god for making her ugly. Audrey is a simple country girl who lacks intelligence .So she is unable to understand the poetry of Tochstone, and his witty remarks. she ready to stand the comments of touchstone for the reason that if she marries him she would become a city woman.yet she love him.



Touchstone 's is an anti romantic fool. In her very presence, he refers to her as 'a poor virgin, an ill-favoured thing'.Touchstone does not wish to marry her seriously as wants to abandon her when he gets tired of her, after sometime on the pretext of having not been married by a qualified priest. Even before he has married her, he thinks of divorcing her. However Audrey's love for Touchstone is genuine.

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