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Name : Manish Kumar Mondal

Class : 9 ‘B’

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Submitted to: Mrs. Navdeep Mam

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 ABOUT SHAKESPEARE

william Shakespeare (baptized 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616)was an

English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English
language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England's national
poet and the "Bard of Avon".His surviving works, including some collaborations,
consist of about 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other
poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are
performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and
raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with
whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Ham net and Judith. Between 1585
and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner
of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's
Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years
later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been
considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality,
religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

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 INTRODUCTION
This model of the seven
stages of life is an
important conceptual tool
formulated by WIILIAM
SHAKESPEARE to
clarify, and so help others
to similarly understand,
the spiritual implications
of all the individual and
collective expressions of
human experience and
knowledge. The following
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1. Human life develops or evolves in seven stages.

2. The first three stages of human life are the stages
of lower functional (physical, emotional, and mental)
adaptation to the universal Life-Energy.

3. The fourth stage of human life is the stage of

whole bodily surrender and adaptation to the universal
Life via Love-Communion (the disposition of the heart
or deep psyche of pure energy).

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The fifth stage of human life is the stage of
mysticism, or evolutionary adaptation to the
higher brain and mind.

The sixth stage of human life is the stage of

ego-death, or transcendence of mind, independent
self, and primal fear.

 The seventh stage of human life is the stage of

bodily Translation, or Transfiguration of the total
body-mind and the atomic soul in the Infinite
Radiance of the Living God.

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 THE SEVEN AGES
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then, the whining schoolboy with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow.

Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
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Even in the cannon's mouth.
 And then the justice
In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws, and modern instances,
And so he plays his part.

The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,
His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide,
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.

Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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 SUMMARY
The Seven Ages of Man’ is taken from William
Shakespeare’s famous play, ‘As You Like It’ (Act-
II, Scene-VII), describes the seven phases in a
man’s life-from childhood to old age. The world is
but a global stage and all men and women
presented here are mere puppets in the hands of
destiny. Just like the infrastructures of a stage, the
world has its own entrances and exits. Every man
in his full lifetime has many parts to play. His
total number of acts in his lifetime is the seven
ages.
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 The first and foremost act of every human being is the
stage of infancy, where he makes his presence felt by
crying at the top of his voice and many a times vomiting
any food or drink that is repulsive, at the nursing arms of
his mother. This period normally last till four years of age.
Infancy
In this
stage he
is a
helpless
baby
and
knows
little.
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The second stage is the ‘whining’ schoolboy where he
learns to utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound,
as in pain, fear, supplication, or complaint. His shiny
morning face and his satchel; a small bag, sometimes with
a shoulder strap; he creeps like a snail and not willing to
go to school.
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The third stage is his early youth, the peak of love and
high romance. He sighs like a burning furnace and
sings the sad ballads of romance; full of woe; affected
with, characterized by, or indicating woe: woeful
melodies; to impress his lover’s heart. The impression
of her reply can be seen in her eyebrows.
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The lover: In this Stage he is always remorseful due to some
reason or other, especially the loss of love. He tries to
express feelings through song or some other cultural activity.

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 The fourth stage is that of a soldier where life if
full of obligations, commitments, compliances,
oaths and vows.  His beard is like a leopard or
panther. He endlessly fights for his honor, a full
presence of mind which is sudden and quick in
quarrel and a heart to maintain a dignified
reputation.

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The soldier: It is in
this age that he
thinks less of
himself and begins
to think more of
others. He is very
easily aroused and
is hot headed. He is
always working
towards making a
reputation for
himself and
gaining
recognition,
however short-
lived it may be,
even at the cost of
his own life.

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The fifth stage is the adult-hood where a man tries to live a fair
and justified life. His belly becomes bigger than normal. He is
conscious about his diet and consumes a good intake of
‘capon’; a cockerel castrated to improve the flesh for use as
food. His eyes are severe with seriousness and his beard is
leveled to a formal cut. He is to take a lot of correct decisions to
keep up with the ever changing times. So this stage is the most
powerful stage in life.

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The sixth stage is the middle-age. Here is where he prepares himself for
the next level in life i.e. old age. He learns to relax from the hustles of
life. His strength begins to weaken and spends more time within the roof
of his house. He looks like a buffoon and an old fool in his rugged old
slippers. He hangs his spectacles on his nose for reading and all his
youthful hose; a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a
desired point; saved for the world too wide. His shank begins to shrink
with time; the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the
ankle; leg. Even his voice begins to descend to a lower tone. In his free
time, he smokes his pipe and whistles his matured melodies.

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The last stage is the old-age where he enters his second childhood. It is also the
beginning of the end of his eventful history. It is also the stage of oblivion; the state
of being completely forgotten or unknown; the state of forgetting or of being
oblivious; official disregard or overlooking of offenses; He is without everything;
without teeth, eyes and taste.

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Extreme
old age:
He loses
his status
and he
becomes
a non-
entity. He
becomes
dependen
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others.

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 Multiple Choice
Questions
• Question:    The poet compares the
world to _________.

a) a story book
b) a film
c) a stage
d) a playground
Ans. C) a stage
Question:    The poet compares
"exit" to _______.

a) birth

b) life

c) doors

d) death Ans. d) death

• Question:    In the second stage of
life man ________.

a. mews and pukes

b. goes to school unwillingly

c. cries in his nurses lap

d. sings and plays Ans. b. goes to school

unwillingly
• Question:    As a young lover,
according to the poet, man _____.

a) learns to dance

b) composes ballads for his beloved

c) goes hunting in the forest

d) does exercises to build his muscles

Ans. b) composes ballads for

his beloved
• Question:    The poet describes man
as a soldier in the ________.

a) Third stage

b) Fourth stage

c) Fifth stage

d) Sixth stage

Ans. b) fourth stage

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•Read the extract
and answer the
given questions
“Sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrows”.

a. Name the stage in man's life.

Ans. This is the lover's stage.

b. What is 'woeful ballad‘?

Ans. It refers to the sad, romantic verse or song written
about his true love.

c. What is the figure of speech in the first line?

Ans. The figure of speech used is simile - 'sighing like a
furnace'
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 Ques. Why has reputation been
described as ‘bubble’? What is
ironical about a soldier dying for
it?
• Ans. Reputation has been
described as ‘bubble’because it is
transitory(short-lived) by nature.
The irony is that the soldier does
Ques. Bring out anology (camparison)
between the world and the stage.
• Ans. Men and women on the earth are merely players
in the drama of life. Just as there are various ‘acts’ or
parts in a play, life has various stages,too. The entrance
in a ‘role’ is comparable to birth and exit is similar to
death. At every stage, like the acts of play, Man’s
character changes. Thus the comparison between life
and drama, between the world and stage is total and
absolute.
Ques. What are the similarities between
last and first stage of infancy?

Ans. Just as man in his infancy is absolutely

helpless and totally dependent ,man is the last
stage of senility ,too becomes totally
dependent on others. Weak and feeble, with
all his senses failing, he is not able to do
anything himself. Toothless like an infant his
voice too becomes child like. It is at this stage
of life that he stands at the threshold of death.
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 Ques. How does the poet describe man’s first
five stages?

Ans. The poet describes beautifully man’s first five

stages. In the first stage, man is the infant. In the
second stage he is a school-going child. He walks like
a snail-unwillingly. In the third stage he is a lover. He
sings a sad song for his mistress. He sighs like a
furnace. In the fourth stage he is a soldier. He has
solemn promises and keeps them even in the face of
death. He is always ready to die for the sake of honour.
He is sudden and very quick in quarrel. He is not
afraid of death. In the fifth stage he is like a judge .
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