ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE By William Shakespeare'

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ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGEBy William Shakespeare.

• Presented by
• Thomas Poovattil and Kaikasi.

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ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE.

• 1)The various stages of man between the womb and
  the tomb as envisaged by William Shakespeare.
• 2)Shakespeares thoughts in All the World Is A
  Stage is collated with that of Kumaran Asans
  thoughts in Veena Poovu.

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Seven Stages Of Man.

• All the worlds a stage,
• And all 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.

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Stage 1- The Infant.

• At first the infant,
• Mewling and puking in the nurses arms.

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Stage 2- The School Boy.

• Then the whining school boy, with his satchel,
• And shining morning face, creeping like snail
  
• Unwilling to go to school.

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Stage 3 The Lover.

• And then the lover,
• Sighing like furnace,with a woeful ballad
• Made to his mistress eyebrow.

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Stage 4- The Soldier.

• 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 cannons mouth.

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Stage 5 The Justice.

• 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.

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Stage 6 The Old Man.

• The sixth stage shifts
• Into the lean and slipperd pantaloon.
• With spectacles on nose and pouch in 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.

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Stage 7- The Second Childhood.

• Last scene of all,
• That ends this strange eventful history,
• Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
• Sans teeth, sans eyes,sans taste, sans
  everything.
• -William Shakespeare.

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Thematic Comparison.

• Shakespeares All the world is a stage can be
  thematically compared with Asans Veena
  Poovu.Asan has also envisaged a similar
  transition of man from childhood to old age in
  his poem Veena Poovu.Asan visualizes the
  transition through the various stages in the life
  of a flower.

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The Different Stages of Man.

• The Seven stages
• of Man.
• 1)The Infant.
• 2)The School Boy.
• 3)The Lover.
• 4)The Soldier.
• 5)The Justice.
• 6)The Old Man.
• 7)The Second-
• Childhood.

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Conclusion.

• As for man, his days are like grass
• as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
• For the wind passeth over it and it is gone
• and the place thereof shall know it no more.
• - The Holy Bible.

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Bibliography.

• Books.
• Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.
• Veena Poovu by Kumaran Asan.
• Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Christ Nagar Anthology of Poems.
• Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science and Nature.

• Web sites.
• www.shakespeare.com.
• www.roughcut.com.
• www.clark.net.
• www.library.thinkquest.org.
• www.cv81pl.freeservice.co.uk.
• www.oldmansea.com