The world is a stage

The world is a stage is a phrase uttered by characters in the works of William Shakespeare's Jaques titled As You Like It. This monologue likened this world as a stage play and human life as a play, and explain about the seven ages of man, which is sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and childhood -second childhood, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, without all of them". Shakespeare's intention is that this world is none other than the theater stage and people are actors. Since human beings were born into the world of theater and continues to act in accordance with their age, their parents until the age when the last episode played.

This is one part of Shakespeare's most frequently cited.
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"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;
Then the whining school-boy, 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 cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
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 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. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." — Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)

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