Interpretation of “As you like it” By William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world’s pre- eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. He has written many plays, sonnets, poems. One his well known plays is called As you like it. This play is also called as a pastoral comedy. In this comedy we can find a famous speech with the same title As you like it, but in fact it is better known as The seven ages of man.
The speech which we are going to interpret is found in the act 2nd , scene 7th of the aforesaid play. This speech is said by a character called Jaques. With the help of Jaques W. Shakespeare says that our life is divided into seven stages. Although this speech was written many years ago, it looks that these Shakespearean stages have not been changed until nowadays.
Firstly, Shakespeare says that: “All the man and women merely players”, it means that our life is very close to the performance, where we can see our “exits” with the meaning of our death and “entrances” which means our birth. He also shoots straight and says, that we play many parts in our life. These words give not only the impression of uncertainty but also an idea that all the people are fakes, just like the dolls of the life.
Starting from the beginning, according to Shakespeare the first stage of our life is called the infant. However the baby in this speech does not look very attractive as he is represented with some kind of negative verbs: “Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms”.
The next stage of life is named the schoolboy. This boy is very...

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