SummaryThrough Jacques, Shakespeare puts forth the view that the world is a stage in whichhuman beings play their part. There are seven Acts like seven stages in a man’s life. APerson performs multifarious roles in a single life-time. In the beginning, he is a babycrying in the ARMS of the nurse. Infancy is followed by school-going stage, when he isbright-eyed, trudging unwillingly to school. In the third stage, he grows into a lover,writing poems in praise of his beloved and sighing like a furnace. Then he plays therole of a soldier, who is rash, and who willingly sacrifices his life for honour. In thenext role he is a Judge, well-fed, prosperous, fat and fierce-eyed. He is always in amood of IMPRESSING others and is full of wise maxims. The next stage depicts man tobe WEAK, thin, wearing spectacles and slippers. His clothes are loose and legs are thinand his voice is shrill like that of a child. At the end COMES the last stage when heloses his memory, teeth, eyes, taste, infact everything. It is like a second childhoodAs he has to depend on others for everything. Thus ends the drama of his eventful life