ALL THE

WORLD'S Name: Isha Darbarsing Girase

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STAGE
 The speaker, Jacques, begins “All the
world’s a stage” by asserting that life is like
a stage on which “men and women
merely” play roles. They play different parts
throughout their lives, as the speaker is

Summary
now. In the bulk of this monologue, the
speaker spends time going through
the seven ages of man. One starts in
infancy, moves through childhood, and into
the best part of their life when they’re a
lover, soldier, and judge. Later, they lose
control of their senses and eventually can’t
take care of themselves
 THEME

IN ‘ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE’ SHAKESPEARE DISCUSSES

THE FUTILITY OF HUMANITY’S PLACE IN THE WORLD. HE
EXPLORES THEMES OF TIME, AGING, MEMORY, AND THE
PURPOSE OF LIFE. THROUGH THE MONOLOGUE’S
CENTRAL CONCEIT, THAT EVERYONE IS SIMPLY A PLAYER IN
A LARGER GAME THAT THEY HAVE NO CONTROL OVER, HE
BRINGS THE THEMES TOGETHER. SHAKESPEARE TAKES THE
READER THROUGH THE STAGES OF LIFE, STARTING WITH
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD AND ENDING UP WITH AN OLD
MAN WHO’S BEEN A LOVER, A SOLDIER, AND A JUDGE. THE
“MAN” DIES AFTER REVERTING BACK TO A STATE THAT’S
CLOSE TO CHILDHOOD AND INFANCY. YOU CAN ALSO
EXPLORE THE THEMES IN OTHER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
POEMS
 • In ‘All the world’s a stage’ Shakespeare
creates
a somber and depressing mood through
the simple breakdown of life, success,
love, and death. The beauties of life are

Tone
compiled into a short monologue that’s
over almost as soon as it began. With
this, the reader is left to consider their
own life and what “stage” they’re in now.
The speaker knows that this is the way the
world is, everyone listening to his words
is all going to end up back where they
started as children and there’s no way to
change that fact
 • All the world’s a stage’ is an excerpt from
William Shakespeare’s well-loved play, As
You Like It. Specifically, it is
a monologue that is spoken by the
melancholy Jaques. The monologue
is twenty-eight lines long and is in

Structure part written in blank verse,

or unrhymed iambic pentameter. This
means that the lines do not rhyme, but

And
they do (at some points) contain five sets
of two beats, the first of which is
unstressed and the second of which is
stressed.

Form • It is also important to consider how a

performer might’ve used the stage to
their advantage when performing these
lines and the impact that formal elements
like enjambment and alliteration would’ve
had on the audience’s understanding of
the speech
 • Shakespeare uses the monologue in As
You Like It to compare life to a stage on
its most basic level. His speaker, Jacques,
is suggesting that life is a stage, and men
and women are players who take on
different roles throughout their lives. The

Meaning concept comes, in part, from medieval

philosophy. The “seven ages” dates from
the 12th century. There was a tapestry of
King Henry V depicting the seven stages
of man. For theological reasons, medieval
philosophers constructed groups of seven
as in the seven deadly sins. Therefore, it
is believed that the “seven ages” derive
from medieval philosoph