As You Like It- Characters

"After some question with him, was converted Bothfrom his enterprise and from the world; His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother" (V iv 78)

In As You Like It, their were few main characters, and virtually no antagonists, at least none that posed a lasting threat to any of the characters. At the start of the play, Duke Fredrick and Oliver, defiantly were made out to be potential threats to Rosalind and Orlando. There was talk of murder for not much of a reason other than selfish purposes. In this way, this play seems likely to share character relationships with Othello, like the relationship of Iago with Cassio. However, once Duke Fredrick banishes Rosalind and Oliver makes Orlando run into the forest, the reader does not hear form either of them for 2 acts. Once these characters leave the story line, there is little conflict. In the forest, almost everything happens like the characters want them to happen. Orlando finds Rosalind, Rosalind trains Orlando to be a good husband, and nobody wants to stop them. When finally oliver shows up again, the reader expects an ulterior motive against Orlando, trying to kill him, or bring him to Duke Fredrick. He had a sudden conversion, because his brother saved him from an attack. Duke Fredrick, in the end, had an even more sporadic conversion on the advice of a religious man. By act 5 there are no antagonists.