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Close Reading of shakespeare (continued)
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Choose two to three words from the passage that Shakespeare uses to describe each of the seven ages.
Excerpted from As You Like It, known as The Seven Ages of Man
by William Shakespeare
Jacques: All the world’s a stage,
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Why does Shakespeare describe the soldier’s reputation as a bubble?
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How is the sixth age a change from the progression the man has made until now?
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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.
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
Even in the canon’s mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined,
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 slippered pantaloon
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward 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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