ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Just as actors in a play enter the stage to perform their respective roles, men and women take birth in this world and then, having performed their roles through various stages, meet death. The quoted lines employ extended metaphor to bring home the idea of transitoriness of human life.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most famous speech in As You Like It is the Seven Ages of Man, which begins ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players’ (Act 2, Scene 7). Michael Horden playing Jaques, the character in As You Like It who delivers the ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech.

Detailed explanation-3: -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 now.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Shakespeare compare men and women are merely players as refer that these world as a stage because human beings arrive in this world just to play their roles. They are just like the puppets whose strings are in the hands of the pupeteer . Here exits refer to the death and entrance refer to the birth.