Gender roles are tangled and blurred in this scene. The female Rosalind, posing as the male Ganymede, is the dominant force throughout this extract and is fully immersed in her role as a man, somewhat demonstrated by the change in her tone when reading the letter from Phoebe. Furthermore she displays more …show more content…
She speaks in prose, unlike most nobles in Shakespeare’s plays, showing further how she wishes to present herself as the lower class Ganymede and her emotions are conveyed by the use of vocabulary. There is a clear change is Rosalind’s mood as she reads the letter and as the passage progresses; depending on the actor’s interpretation, her feelings could be said to span from disbelief, shown by her outburst when reading the letter, (“can a woman rail thus”), anger, directed at Silvius (“he deserves no pity”) and Phoebe (“mark