ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to the speaker, the “players” in these seven acts of life
A
can choose whether or not to be in one of the acts
B
must wear glasses and stockings
C
enter as infants and exit as aged people
D
enter as adults and exit as school children
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the poem, by ‘exits’ the poet means the death of man and by ‘entrances’ he means the birth of man. He uses the metaphor of a stage for the course of a human life and thus, the words exits and entrances falls appropriately.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Seven Ages of Man is a series of paintings by Robert Smirke, derived from the famous monologue beginning all the world’s a stage from William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The stages referred are: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and old age.

Detailed explanation-3: -Baby or infant. School boy or child. Lover. Soldier. Justice or judge. Old man. Extreme old age, again like a child.

Detailed explanation-4: -1) Foetus: The sperm from the adult male human and the egg from the adult female human form a zygote inside the uterus of the female. 2) Infancy: 3) Toddler years: 4) Childhood: 5) Adolescence: 6) Adulthood: 7) Middle age: 8) Old age:

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