All the World's a Stage

Chester Fung S4SS (11)

True and changes in Shakespeare’s summary of human life

To me, All the World’s a Stage is one of the most descriptive poem about human life over four hundred years since William Shakespeare wrote the play. However, among the seven stages of human life there are a number of stages are still true and others have changed. This shows two things: first, Sir William Shakespeare pay very fine attention towards the process of life in order to write this poem with poetic techniques. Second, human beings have been improving the civilization but a lot of things that we experience are necessary to face, things like death, love, and aging problem are all inevitable and therefore still remain true. Shakespeare compared the human life with the stage, the time is the scene of an actor or actress. Indeed, I think that is really convincing because we do come and go in a limited amount of time. Just like the some scenes you are involved, others you do not. No one can act in all scenes; even so, the play will end eventually. Therefore people die when the play ended.

Everything has a beginning and an ending; there is no exception; which means everyone is in the same physical state. Therefore the first part about “…men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances…” remains true. The entrances mean the birth, and the exits will be the death of a man or women. It is a necessary process of human life, we were born, we live, we age and finally, we die. Whether it is cyclical or not? We do not know. The only thing for certain is we have limited amount of time. Looking back just now, I am in shock how fast time passes by. It is as if it was yesterday’s event when I have got beaten because of not swallowing the food. I am sure the coming twenty years and the twenty years after that will also pass in seconds. This is the necessary stage to go through in every life of the universe. Although scientists keep on inventing medicines to try to extend...