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The challenge to belong may be resisted or embraced. How is this explored in your prescribed text and one other related text of your own choosing? Belonging to others is a challenge which all people face. However, it is a challenge which can be accepted or rejected. Orlando in Shakespeare's As You Like It embraces the challenge of belonging to his brother Oliver, doing his utmost to foster a sense of filial love. Conversely, Jacques resists all forms of belonging and instead makes the decision to be by himself, a decision, however, which could be viewed in a positive light. "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost depicts how the speaker's neighbour is adamant about separating himself, for no good reason. In this way, the challenge to belong is explored in both these texts, with decisions not to belong being placed in very different lights. Orlando's expectations of familial belonging are not fulfilled, as is evident in the opening scene of As You Like It. He complains that he is kept "rustically" at home, and compares his plight as "no different than a stalling of an ox". This animal imagery and comparison depicts the challenge Orlando faces with trying to have a bond with his brother Oliver. However, despite Orlando's acceptance of the challenge, Oliver does not wish to connect and instead reinforces his power with the rhetorical question: "know who you are, sir?" Oliver's rejection of the challenge to belong negates Orlando's attempts and thus no bond is formed between the two. Oliver's motivations for rejecting Orlando's pleas for filial belonging are cloudy, there is no positive explanation for his treatment of his younger brother. Hence Oliver's refusal to belong with Orlando is depicted as a negative decision.
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