Celia is Rosalind’s cousin and closest friend. She is also, for the majority of the play, Rosalind’s biggest critic. Celia is …show more content…
Throughout the play characters will poke holes in the affections of others. One example of this is when Touchstone pokes fun at Orlando’s poems to Rosalind. Even creating his own parody of the poems (p.117 3.2.89-100). This shows readers just how ridiculous and ill-written Orlando’s poems are. As well, Shakespeare shows lovers as absent minded people who just sit around “sighing like furnace” while making a “woeful ballad” to their “mistress’ eyebrow” (p.109 2.7 146-148). This which of course is not completely true, yet, it does point out the faults of those in love. Also the melancholy character, Jacques, is quick to ridicule the lovers, even telling Orlando “The worst fault you have is to be in love” (p. 125 3.2.256). While Shakespeare may not completely share this view, it shows a contrasting view to the mindless lovers. Shakespeare switches between the extremes of lovers and critics of love, highlighting the problems of both. Showing this contradiction through two extremes is the definition of satire. Shakespeare is not intending readers to pick a side, extreme romantic or extreme realist, but rather realize there is faults to