1) what are the seven stages personal life ? mention its stages notable characteristics.
2) why does the school what does Snail pace ? is he not happy ?
3) what does the lover do
4) what makes the soldier 'quick in quarrel'?
5) how does man play his part as "the justice "
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Summary
Through Jacques, Shakespeare puts forth the view that the world is a stage in which
human beings play their part. There are seven Acts like seven stages in a man’s life. A
Person performs multifarious roles in a single life-time. In the beginning, he is a baby
crying in the arms of the nurse. Infancy is followed by school-going stage, when he is
bright-eyed, trudging unwillingly to school. In the third stage, he grows into a lover,
writing poems in praise of his beloved and sighing like a furnace. Then he plays the
role of a soldier, who is rash, and who willingly sacrifices his life for honour. In the
next role he is a Judge, well-fed, prosperous, fat and fierce-eyed. He is always in a
mood of impressing others and is full of wise maxims. The next stage depicts man to
be weak, thin, wearing spectacles and slippers. His clothes are loose and legs are thin
and his voice is shrill like that of a child. At the end comes the last stage when he
loses his memory, teeth, eyes, taste, infact everything. It is like a second childhood
As he has to depend on others for everything. Thus ends the drama of his eventful life