Comment on the love story of oliver and celia
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Oliver appears to have fallen in love with Celia as Aliena the first moment he sees and speaks with her, and Celia seems to quickly reciprocate his feelings and agree to marry him. However, it is not Oliver's looks so much as her knowledge of his newly changed character that incites Celia's feelings of love for Oliver. As we learn when Rosalind first falls in love with Orlando in the first act, both Oliver and Orlando are sons of Sir Rowland de Boys, a courtier that Rosalind's usurped and exiled father dearly loved and admired, as well as the rest of her father's court. Since it is commonly agreed upon that the "apple does not fall far from the tree," meaning that offspring usually have characteristics that are similar to their parents' characteristics, we know it is not a stretch for Celia to see Sir Rowland's characteristics in Oliver, even though Oliver did not seem to possess them at the beginning of the play. While Oliver admired his youngest brother's attributes, jealousy over his brother's attributes turned him into a very vicious person, or an "unnatural" person, as Celia phrased it (IV.iii.122). Nevertheless, at the point in the story that Celia and Oliver fall in love, Oliver has just gone through a major character change. Orlando sacrificed his life for Oliver, which helped Oliver realize his love for his brother, transforming him into as caring of a person as their father, Sir Rowland. Hence, when Celia spontaneously falls in love with Oliver for the first time, she is not necessarily falling in love with something trivial like his looks, she is falling in love with what she believes to be his character. We learn about the qualities of Sir Rowland all throughout the beginning of the play, but especially in Rosalind's comment to Orlando:
My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,
And all the world was of my father's mind. (I.ii.235-36)
Hence we see that unlike other instances of love at first sight, or spontaneous love, Shakespeare is portraying Celia's lover for Oliver as being based on rational reasons rather than trivialities....
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