As You Like It LRJ #5

Liz Roepke
Peifer 4
English 10 IB
17 March 2009

As You Like It LRJ #5

In Act Five, Ganymede is revealed as Rosalind, and Aliena as Celia. Rosalind becomes Orlando's wife, and can stop pretending to be Ganymede. She also speaks with her father and declares herself as his daughter.
Rosalind remains in the Forest of Arden, but disappears for a time while she changes from being Ganymede to Rosalind. She does not sneak around and hide in this Act, which is comparable to how she reveals herself as who she truly is, and does not hide behind the mask of Ganymede anymore.
In the final Act, Rosalind gets what she desires. She is married to Orlando, she is reunited with her father, and her and Celia remain best friends. Her main goal in this Act is to make it known that she is Rosalind. This goes against her goals in the other four Acts, in which she wanted to conceal her identity. To marry Orlando, she tells him that they will be married if he wants to. "I'll have no husband, if you be not he" (5.4.127). To bring to light who she really is, Rosalind as Ganymede leaves with Aliena as Celia, then re-enters as herself.
Rosalind and Celia, as ever, are best friends and cousins, and now sisters-in-law as well. Orlando and Rosalind are finally married. Rosalind makes it known that she is Duke Senior's daughter as well. "I'll have no father, if you be not he" (5.4.126).