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The play As You Like It, was written about 600 years ago by William Shakespeare, yet the morals of this poem are still discussed today. Does ‘Good’ triumph over ‘Evil’? The good guys usually always win in an average book that has a concept of good and evil, but, is it the same with this play? For evil certainly has the upperhand in the beginning. At the start of the play, Orlando, youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, was angry. “My father charged you in his will to give me good education,” he stormed at his eldest brother Oliver, “but you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities!” Oliver decided that the time had come to rid his brother without parting with any money his father had left him. Orlando, wanting to prove his strength and manhood, had challenged a champion wrestler. Instead of warning his brother about the danger, he “confided” to the wrestler that Orlando was a vicious youth who had sworn to kill his opponent by fair means or foul. He even advised that the wrestler should kill Orlando quickly in the fight. Oliver was not the only man to plot against a brother. Frederick, Duke of the province, was a usurper who had forced his own brother f