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Read the summary of the play ‘As You Like It’ by William Shakespeare using the Internet. Find out which character has narrated the above poem and on what occasion. Also, make a list of all the characters of the play.
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Solution
The character who has narrated the above poem in the play 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare is Jacques. He narrates it in Act II, Scene VII in reply to an idea given by Orlando.
Some of the other characters in the play are: Celia, Rosalind, Orlando, Oliver. Duke Senior, Duke Frederick, Touchstone, etc.
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Read the following extract and do the given activities:
A1. Match the following:
| 'A' | 'B' | ||
| i. | Infant | a. | Act like the pard |
| ii. | Schoolboy | b. | Mewling and puking |
| iii. | Lovers | c. | Whining |
| iv. | Solider | d. | Sighing like furnace |
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 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 honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth
A2. Complete the following table:
| Stages of man | Role | Qualities/Action |
| First | ||
| Second |
A3. All the world’s stage:
a. Alliteration
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
(Choose the correct answer from the given options and explain the chosen figure of
speech)
Pair up with your partner and name the following:
- The Seven wonders of the world- _________
- The Seven continents - ____________
- The Seven colours of the rainbow- ________
- The Seven notes of the musical scale- ________
- The Seven seas of the world - ________
Read the words in given clouds. Match them with what they signify.
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) Stage | 1. Birth |
| (b) Characters | 2. Situations/Incidents |
| (c) Script | 3. Story of Life |
| (d) Dialogues | 4. Death |
| (e) Entry | 5. Conversation |
| (f) Exit | 6. Roles played by human beings |
| 7. Life |
Read the poem carefully and complete the following table.
| Ages of man | Role | Qualities/Actions |
Write down in your own words the differences between the following stages of a man's life.
- 2nd stage and the 4th
- 3rd stage and 5th stage
- 1st stage and 7th (last) stage
Pick out lines that contain Imagery (a picture created in the mind by using words) of the following people.
- School boy - ______
(2nd stage) - ______ - Soldier - ______
(4th stage) - ______ - Judge - ______
(5th stage) - ______ - Senior citizen - ______
(6th stage) - ______
Think and write on your own.
Which two stages of man, described by Shakespeare, sound humorous? Say why.
Think and write on your own.
The last (7th) stage of life sounds very sad and miserable. How can you make old age also cheerful and happy?
Read the poem again and write an appreciation of the poem in paragraph format.
You will notice that there is no Rhyme-scheme in the poem. It appears similar to the poem 1.1 ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ by Tagore.
However, Tagore’s poem has no steady rhythm/meter either it is called Free Verse. Shakespeare uses lines with a steady rhythm of 5 beats in each. It is termed as Blank Verse. (No rhyme-scheme but uniformity in rhythm) Copy the lines from “Ánd all the men and women merely players” to “sudden and quick in quarrel”. Put a stress mark on each of the syllables stressed in the lines as - for example, And all the men and women merely players;
