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21st Century fACTIVITY#1
21st Century fACTIVITY#1
21st Century fACTIVITY#1
THE WORLD
“ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE, AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY
PLAYERS; THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS AND THEIR ENTRANCES; AND ONE MAN IN
IMPORTANT
HIS TIME PLAYES MANY PARTS.” This part of the poem states that all the People in the
DETAILS world “lives and dies.” “HIS ACTS BEING SEVEN AGES” and those people have different
roles in the society as stated on the poem.
FORM (PROSE OR
POETRY
POETRY)
Characters: Men and Women, Infant, School-boy, Lover, Soldier, Justice, Age Shift, Second
CHARACTERS,
Childishness and narrator.
NARRATOR, Narrator: William Shakespeare
AUTHOR, PERSONA Author: William Shakespeare
Message: Nothing is permanent in this world; you’ll live and you die. As what stated in the
Poem (“THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS AND THEIR ENTRANCES”). You’ll live like the infant
MESSAGE / THEME and die like the Second childishness when you lose everything (“SANS TEETH, SANS EYES,
SANS TASTE, SANS EVERYTHING”). Shakespeare wants us to realize that live life to the
fullest, because life is just short make your life worth it.
Vocabulary
Players—actors
Satchel—bookbag
Pard—leopard
Jealous—jealousy
Capon lined—stomach lined with a rooster (well fed)
Saws—wise sayings (advice)
Instances—examples
Pantaloon—weak foolish man
Shank—calf of the leg
Sans—without (French word)