As You Like It: Dynamic Characters

"OLIVER: Now will I stir this gamester: I hope I shall see and end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why, hates nothing more than he." pg. 5

In the story, Oliver, Orlando's brother, and Duke Frederick, Duke Senior's brother, have much in common. Both resent their brother and both seek power over them. While Oliver keeps Orlando as a servant and does not allow him to get an education, Frederick has banished Senior from his own dukedom and taken rule of it himself. They both show no concern for their brother's strife or troubles but instead wish it upon them. But another thing that they have in common is that they are dynamic characters. Both go through conversions throughout the course of the story that cause them to have a change of heart toward their brothers. At the beginning of the story, they seem one-dimensional but this transformation makes them more than just a minor character or someone to move the plot along. It makes them stand out more. Even though they convert in different ways, Oliver by getting a taste of his own medicine and Frederick by talking with old religious convertites, both become dynamic characters through their change.