Your Life According To Shakespeare
In Act II, scene VII, of the play As You Like It, a disheartened Jacques takes a long look at life:
All the worlds a stage,
and all the men and women, merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
and one man in his time plays many parts(1-4)
It is a line that is as simplistic as it is complicated, comparing the cycle of life to that of a play. This quote, pulled from the play As You Like it, a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare, has been repeated and analyzed thoroughly throughout the years by poets and philosophers alike. This set speech, spoken by Jacques, takes a seven step look at the aging process of man: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childishness. With such visual dialect Shakespeare metaphorically compares the seven stages of aging, to the multiple acts of a play and the plot's ascending and descending order much like that of life's from infant to second childishness.......
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