Jacques is the harbor of negativity, the one to deplete
the joy of life, the black hole, pessimistic, and depressive man whom Orlando and
Rosalind detest so much, as well as everyone else who comes across
him.
His role in the story is interesting because his
behavior is often what is expected of life: To hope for the best by expecting the worst,
to never believe in fantasies, and so on.
However it is his
behavior what reinforces the positive and fantastic behavior of everyone around him. In
the end he is an isolated soul who tries to bring everyone with him in his quest to suck
the life out of everything, yet, it is this exact sort of thing what makes the
characters around him even stronger. This is why when we read the comedy, we can feel
the strength of the good emotions to be more evident than the negativity embodied in
Jacques.
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