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THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN

Q1): How does Shakespeare look at the world and arm? Answer the reference to that speech from "AS you
like it"?
Ans: In this poem Shakespeare describes various stages of human life. He compares this world to a stage where
man and women as actors and actress perform the drama of human life. The birth and death of human beings is
similar to the entrance and exit of characters of stage. This point of view reflects his deep affiliation with theatre.

Q2): What roles does every one play on the stage of his world according to Shakespeare?
Ans: This speech is taken from Act II, scene VII of As like it written by William Shakespeare. He divides the human
life into seven stages. According to Jacques the entire world is like a stage. All human beings are life actors. Men
performed many parts on the stage of his world.
 At first he performs the role of his world.
 Then, he performs the role of school boy.
 He performs the role of lover
 Then he becomes a soldier and faces every danger for the sake of honor and the glory of his country.
 After this stage becomes a judge with a bulging belly. He knows many wise saying and modern instances.
 In the sixth stage man becomes old and thin and looks like a clown, His legs grow so thin that the socks
which he wore in his youth become too wide for him
 The last stage, which is the closing chapter of his eventful history, is the second childhood. He is then
without teeth, without eyes, without taste and without everything.

Q3): What are these seven ages into Jacques divides a man's life according to the poem "The Seven Ages of
Man"?
Ans:
 Infancy
 Childhood age
 Adulthood (youth).
 Soldier with rules (Man or Women)
 Judge (Eager to implement his. her knowledge)
 Old age
 Very old age

Q4): Jacques take a disrespectful humorous view of man in all the parts he plays through life in the poem
"Seven Ages of Man"
Ans: Jacques takes a disrespectful humorous view of men in all the parts plays on the stage of life. The first stage is
that of infancy. As a child, one is thoroughly depend on his mother or his nurse. As a boy one behave in queer
manners. One does not willingly go to school. As a young man, one composes verses in praises of his beloved and
sighs like a furnace. This stage is also very strange and humorous.

Q5): Describe the last two stages of man's life as depicted by Jacques in the seven ages of man.
Ans: The last two stages of a man's life depicted by Jacques in the poem "the Seven Ages of Man' by William
Shakespeare are follows: In the sixth age the wise judge is an old man now. His legs are thin, body has shrunk, and
his strong voice changes into a squeaking voice. The seventh and the last stage of man’s life is the time of exit. He is
once again dependent upon others a she was in infancy. Shakespeare has called this age second childhood.

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