Things start to get a little bit clearer as to why Celia seems to have feelings towards Rosalind, more than that of sisters love. During scene III, Duke Frederick decides to banish Rosalind because people are starting to pity her. Celia's response to her father's decision is to request banishment upon her as well and tells him "if she be a traitor, why, so am I. We still have slept together, rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, and wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, still we went coupled and inseparable" (1.3.70-74). Rosalind considers Celia a sister, but she does not seem to confuse sister love to what Celia calls "true" love. When Rosalind tells that requesting banishment upon her was absurd because Duke Frederick didn't
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In Ryan Tracy's "The Unqueering of As You Like It," he explains that Ganymede is a known "homoerotically" name because it refers to a beautiful boy whose love the gods wanted (Tracy 26). Zeus, the god of thunder, fell in love with Ganymede and kidnapped him to make him his cupbearer and lover (Encyclopedia Mythica). When Duke Frederick sentenced Rosalind to banishment, Rosalind devised a plan to leave Duke Frederick's court and Celia escapes with her. However, to not attract any unwanted attention during their trip, Celia disguises herself as a poor lady whose clothes are torn. On the other hand, Rosalind tells Celia "I am more than common tall... [and] I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page, and therefore look you call me Ganymede" (1.3.114, 1.3.122-24). A hint that Ganymede's myth is cross-cultural is Rosalind's mention of Ganymede being Jupiter's page. According to "differencebetween.net," Jupiter, the Roman god of thunder, and Zeus, the Greek god of thunder, are the same god but known with different names in different places. Both gods are married to their sisters, rose to the throne after their fathers' deaths, use lightning bolts as weapon of choice, and most importantly, fell in love with the same Ganymede. Shakespeare's choice of Ganymede as Rosalind's cross-gender change of identity illuminated his intentions of bringing importance to homoeroticism in his
In Ryan Tracy's "The Unqueering of As You Like It," he explains that Ganymede is a known "homoerotically" name because it refers to a beautiful boy whose love the gods wanted (Tracy 26). Zeus, the god of thunder, fell in love with Ganymede and kidnapped him to make him his cupbearer and lover (Encyclopedia Mythica). When Duke Frederick sentenced Rosalind to banishment, Rosalind devised a plan to leave Duke Frederick's court and Celia escapes with her. However, to not attract any unwanted attention during their trip, Celia disguises herself as a poor lady whose clothes are torn. On the other hand, Rosalind tells Celia "I am more than common tall... [and] I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page, and therefore look you call me Ganymede" (1.3.114, 1.3.122-24). A hint that Ganymede's myth is cross-cultural is Rosalind's mention of Ganymede being Jupiter's page. According to "differencebetween.net," Jupiter, the Roman god of thunder, and Zeus, the Greek god of thunder, are the same god but known with different names in different places. Both gods are married to their sisters, rose to the throne after their fathers' deaths, use lightning bolts as weapon of choice, and most importantly, fell in love with the same Ganymede. Shakespeare's choice of Ganymede as Rosalind's cross-gender change of identity illuminated his intentions of bringing importance to homoeroticism in his