7 Stages Of Man
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Transcript of 7 Stages Of Man
This famous monologue is spoken by Jaques. It contains arresting imagery and figures of speech to develop the central meta-phor: a person’s lifespan being a play in seven acts. These acts, “seven ages,” begin with “the infant Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms” and work through six further vivid verbal sketches, culminat-ing in “second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
As you like itAll the world’s a stage
Life is like a play, we merely go through the stages of
our life acting it out.
1st stage“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 his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
A formative time for the male race. While Shakespeare’s brat is nurtured by a nurse, who probably had several other brats to look after too, modern-day man
is breast-fed, adored and spoilt by his mother, leading to a life-long depen-
dence on the woman and/or fascination with large breasts, rather than some
scrotty offerings that have fed half the village.
1st stage
Infant
In this stage he is dependent on others and needs to be constantly attended to.
2st stageAnd then the whining school-boy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school.
Early childhood follows the infancy stage, and
begins with toddler-hood when the child
begins speaking or taking steps independently.
While toddlerhood ends around age three when the child becomes less
dependent on paren-tal assistance for basic needs, early childhood
continues approximately through years seven or
eight. According to the National Association for the Education of Young Chil-dren, early childhood spans the human life from birth to age eight. Middle childhood begins at around age seven or eight, approximating primary school age and ends around puberty, the begin-ning of adolescence.
3rd stageAnd then the Lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade to his mistress’ eyebrow.
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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4th stageThen a soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation. even
in the cannon’s mouth.
The SoldierLeaving aside the few thousand men that actually do join the army aged 18, the majority of men have to direct their aggressive, man-killing urges else-where. Apart from that, Shakespeare’s description is pretty accurate. Full of strange oaths? Just your average football fan. Bearded like the pard? Student. Jealous in honour and quick in quarrel? Punch-up over mate’s girlfriend. Seeking the bubble reputa-tion, Even in the cannon’s mouth? Okay, it’s a while since I did English A Level, but I’d say this pretty much equates to that strange habit small blokes have of picking on the tallest guy in the pub.
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.
The Justice
The Justice
6th stageThe 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 toward childish
treble, pipes and whistles in his sound.
PantaloonLooks a bit odd at first sight, but then we
find that a Pantaloon, instead of being a
type of trouser, is actually an “old wealthy
suitor”. Rich, retired and mean and miserly,
the pantaloon had a penchant for younger
women, despite the fact, as we can see
from Shakespeare’s original, he had specs,
love-handles, and was a bit spindly. Any of
your dad’s lecherous mates, then.
He begins to lose his charm, both physical and mental. He
begins to become the brunt of others’ jokes. He loses
his firmness and shrinks in stature and personality.
7th stage
Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is
second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes,
sans taste, sans everything.
Is a serious loss of
cognitive ability in a
previously-unimpaired
person, beyond what
might be expected from
normal aging. It may
be static, the result of
a unique global brain
injury, or progressive,
resulting in long-term
decline due to damage
or disease in the body.
Although dementia is
far more common in the
geriatric population, it
may occur in any stage
of adulthood.
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