Rosalind also, thanks to Shakespeare, is able to bypass
the "weakness" of a woman's position in society because she spends the majority of the
play disguised as Ganymede. As such, she is able to move freely (One of the initial
reasons she adopts the disguise is so that she and Celia will be better protected on
their own.) about the Forest of Arden without any fear of the sort of danger that might
be visited upon a woman travelling alone.
She is also able
to be wittier and smarter (especially about Love) than Orlando, taking a position
superior to him as his "tutor" on the subject of wooing a woman. In this case, she is
in the strongest position of any woman in a Shakespeare comedy. Not only does she get
her man, but she teaches him to be exactly the lover she
desires.
So, Rosalind's disguise as Ganymede helps promote
her in "strength" to an equal footing with the men in the play.
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