William Shakespeare

“All The Worlds A Stage”

The AuthorWilliam Shakespeare

was baptized on April 26, 1964, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire,

England. Between 1585-1592, Shakespeare was an important member of a company of stage actors called Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Shakespeare’s also an English poet, dramatist, and actor, often called the English Nat’l Poet, and

considered by many to be the GREATEST DRAMATIST OF ALL TIME.

Title:The world is a stage for

human being, where they play their different roles of life. In fact human beings play their parts in life as characters play their role

on stage.

1st Paragraph All the World’s a stage

And all the men and women are merely players;

They have their exit and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many part,His acts being seven ages. Context: This sonnet of Shakespeare is from his

famous play “As You Like It”. This poem describes various stages of human life. Life has been compared to a play or drama played by

every man and woman on the stage of the world. His seven stages of life are the seven acts of a

play. This shows Shakespeare’s deep knowledge and

transience of human life.

Explanation: In these lines the poet compares this world to a

stage. All men and women are only actors and actresses on the stage of

this world. All these people have different routes to enter this stage and also have different exits to go out. They enter this stage when

they are born and leave this stage when they die. Every person, during

his life time plays many parts. These parts are called seven ages. These ages are actually like acts of

a play.

7 AGES OF LIFE1. An infant

crying2. A complaining

school boy3. A lover

4. A bearded soldier

5. A wise justice6. An old man

7. Second childhood

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 5

Stage 6

Last stage

An infant crying

A complaining school boy

A lover

A bearded soldier

A wise justice

An old man

Second childhood

Stage 1 (an infant crying)

At first, the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

Explanation: Shakespeare says that each human being performs seven parts in this small drama on the stage of the world. He

makes his entry as a baby who is fully dependent upon others. This stage ends

when the infant grows into a school child.

Child during the first few years of life.

A week crying sound Vomiting

Stage 2 (A Complaining School Boy)

And then the whining school-

boy, With his satchel, and

shinning morning face, Creeping like snail,

unwillingly to school

Explanation: The second stage is his boy-hood. This is his school going period. It is the time when he complains all the time. His face shines like the bright and fresh morning. He carries his school bag and

unwillingly goes to school at the speed of an insect.

An unpleasant sound

To move slowlySchool bag

Stage 3 (A Lover)

And then the lover, sighing like a furnace,

With a woeful balladMade to his mistress’

eyebrow.Explanation: This is the third stage of man’s life. Now he is a grown up person and assumes the form of a lover. It is the time when he loves his beloved ardently. He sighs like a furnace or an oven. He writes a song in praise of his beloved’s eye brow. He also sings such songs again and burns in his emotions.

To take & then let out a long deep breath.Very bad or serious

Stage 4 (A Bearded Soldier)

Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and

bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and

quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble

reputationEven in the cannon's mouth

Explanation: In these lines the poet shows the fourth stage of a man’s life. When he matures, he becomes a

soldier. He takes strange oaths. He has a beard like a tiger or a leopard. He is fierce like these animals. During this

stage of life, man is jealous of honour of other. He is very quick-tempered and owns quarrels. Since he is warm-

blooded, he looks for temporary reputation and fame. To achieve this temporary fame, he is even ready to go into

the mouth of a gun. He does not bother for dangers .

leopard

Very bad or serious

Stage 6 (An Old Woman)

The sixth age shifts Into the lean and

slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and

pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved,

a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his

big manly voice, Turning again toward

childish treble, pipesAnd whistles in his sound

Trunk

Child’s high voice

Stage 6 (An Old Woman)

Explanation: This is the last stage of man’s life. In this stage he changes from his old age to the oldest one. This is a strange stage of life. In this period all the life which has been

previously full of strange events, comes to an end. Man becomes child once again.

This is like his second childhood.In this stage he is childish as well as

childlike. At this stage he forgets almost everything. His memory becomes very

weak. He loses teeth, eye-sight and taste. He is without everything.

This is the stage in which he completes the drama of his life and leaves the stage

of this world for the next.

Stage 7(Last Stage)

Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful

history,Is second childishness and mere

oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste,

sans everything Forgetfulness

Without - French word

Stage 7(Last Stage)

Explanation: This is the last stage of man’s life. In this stage he changes from his old age to the oldest one. This is a strange stage of life. In this period all the life which has been

previously full of strange events, comes to an end. Man becomes child once again.

This is like his second childhood.In this stage he is childish as well as

childlike. At this stage he forgets almost everything. His memory becomes very

weak. He loses teeth, eye-sight and taste. He is without everything.

This is the stage in which he completes the drama of his life and leaves the stage

of this world for the next.

CONCLUSIONLife is drama, the world is a stage and we human beings

are actors. The theme hints at the greatest irony in the lives

of human beings. Shakespeare over here has masterfully described the

stages of human’s life. The use of imagery and of acting and stage is a recurrent one

in Shakespeare.

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