What are some strengths, weaknesses, and motivations of the charcter jaques?

Question

i really need answers asap..this is from the play (as You like It)

Answer 1

Jaques is sort of a professional pain-in-the-neck. He has set himself up as a sort of bitter truth-teller out there in the woods with Duke Senior's gang. He rails on them when they kill forest animals, he derides Orlando for being in love, he accuses everyone around him of hypocrisy and ulterior motives, but...

I think the key exchange for this character comes in Act 2, scene vii. It's the bit where Duke Senior has finally had enough of Jaques' endless moralizing, and takes him to task for it:

DUKE SENIOR
Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:
For thou thyself hast been a libertine,
As sensual as the brutish sting itself;
And all the embossed sores and headed evils,
That thou with licence of free foot hast caught,
Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.

This speech can be read literally OR figuratively, but, if read literally, it almost seems to suggest that Jaques suffers from some advanced veneral disease -- syphillis, perhaps -- which he contracted by behaving as a "libertine." I've seen the character played in this manner, and it was quite effective.