Question

What kind of roles in life conveyed in the poem of the seven ages of man

Answer 1

Shakespeare portrays every man and woman as actors who come and go on to a stage as required by them while acting out the drama of life. But during a life time man has to assume seven roles.
Beginning life as an infant mewling and puking in the nurse's arms, he soon grows into a school boy reluctantly going to school. Then he grows up into adolescence and turns into a lover who goes about sighing and composing poems about his lady. He grows up further into a soldier who considers honour above everything, even life.

The hot blooded soldier soon grows into a knowledgeable justice sporting a paunch and formally cut beard. Thereafter he grows old and becomes a lean old man whose manly voice turns into weak trebles. Now his body is too lean for his youthful dresses. The final and the seventh stage finds a man without teeth, eye sight failing. All his important faculties fail and he  enters a second childhood.