Year 7 - English - 14.5.14

Summary of All the World’s a stage

All the World’s a Stage is a simple poem which explains that the entire world is a stage & all women and men are just actors acting various roles. Each one of us has our entrances and exits & throughout our lives we play many roles.

A man’s life is separated into 7 acts. In its 1^st act a man is like an infant, puking and whimpering in his nurse’s arms. After that he is like a naughty schoolboy with a school bag and young face, who is always unwilling to go to school and creeping like a snail. Then when he grows up he becomes someone’s lover puffing and huffing like a furnace writing sad poetries for his mistress’s eye-brows.

In his 4^th act he become a soldier who looks like a beard like panther, who is full of energy and always quick to fight and eager to defend his enemies. In the 5^th act a man becomes a judge who accepts all sorts of bribes and looks like a person with a fat belly.

He has a beard with respectable cut & his eyes become stern. He has all the entertaining stories & all the possible wise sayings to best play his role. In the 6^th act the curtains falls down over a skinny old man wearing slippers, spectacles on his nose, money bag in his hands. He wore stockings that hardly fit into his shrivelled legs & his bellowing voice shrunk down like a childish squeak.

Then comes the 7^th act which is the last act of the entire strange and eventful history. In the 7^thact is the act of forgetfulness. In this act the man enters his 2^nd childhood where he is without taste, without eyes, without teeth & without everything.

This stage is considered as the last stage of a man’s life. This stage transforms him from old to the oldest age. This period is strange as it is full of strange events. A man again becomes a child and his life comes to an end. This stage is also known as his 2^nd childhood. He behaves like a child. By this stage he completes all the roles & leaves the stage.