Shakespeare's As You Like It: Act 1 Scene 3 — Banished and Flight (Character Interactions: Celia, Rosalind, Duke Frederick)

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VCE Literature — Scene Analysis Homework 2 · W2 · Week of 27 Apr 2026 # William Shakespeare, As You Like It — Scene analysis ## Act 1 Scene 3 — Banishment and flight * Aim: 60 minutes total. The purpose of this task is to build your awareness of where a given scene sits in the play and what work it does. Read the scene once carefully, then complete the annotation task and the five short written responses that follow. ## The scene * Enter Celia and Rosalind. **CELIA** Why, cousin, why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word? **ROSALIND** Not one to throw at a dog. **CELIA** No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon curs; throw some of them at me; come, lame me with reasons. **ROSALIND** Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one should be lamed with reasons and the other mad without any. **CELIA** But is all this for your father? **ROSALIND** No, some of it is for my child’s father. O, how full of briers is this working-day world! **CELIA** They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in holiday foolery; if we walk not in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch them. **ROSALIND** I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart. **CELIA** Hem them...