MP Board Class 10th English The
Rainbow Solutions Chapter 16 All
the World's a Stage
MP Board Class 10th English The Rainbow
Solutions Chapter 16 All the World's a Stage
(William Shakespeare)
All the World's a Stage Textbook Exercises
All the World's a Stage Vocabulary
1. Find single words in the poem which have the meanings given below:
1. a very young child, one who has not learnt to speak or walk.
2. an apparatus in a factory, in which metals and other substances are
heated to very high temperature in an enclosed space.
3. full of interesting or exciting events.
4. the raised floor on which plays are performed in a theatre.
5. unsuitable for an adult.
Answer:
1. infant
2. furnace
3. eventful
4. stage
5. youthful.
II. What's the meaning of the word 'players' in the poem? Explain in your
own words.
Answer:
The word 'players' in the poem means 'actors'. As the actors play their parts
on a dramatic/theatrical stage, in the same manner, human beings play
their different roles in different ages of their lives.
Comprehension
A. Answer the following questions in about 25 words.
Question 1.
Explain:
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.
Answer:
Shakespeare compares the world to a stage. Both men and women take
birth and die. It means they come on the stage of life and play their parts
like actors. Every man has to play different parts according to his span of
life. The full life span is divided into seven ages.
Question 2.
Why does the poet compare the school boy to a snail?
Answer:
A snail is a type of small soft animal usually with a hard round shell on its
back, which moves very slowly. The school boy is also soft and delicate. He
has to carry his satchel to school. He is not willing to go to school.
Therefore, he walks slowly like a snail.
Question 3.
How does the soldier play his part on the stage of the world?
Answer:
The soldier is full of strange oaths. He has a long beard like the General of
the army. He is honour seeking. He does not mind quarrelling. He does not
mind going into the mouth of the cannon to achieve the short living fame.
Question 4.
How does the justice act out his part on the stage of the world?
Answer:
The justice is round bellied as he has fed on male chickens. He has severe
looks. He plays his part on the stage of life successfully, using wise sayings
and modern examples.
Question 5.
Why does the poet call man's last age as "second childishness and mere
oblivion"?
Answer:
The old man becomes lean and weak. His manly voice gushes out like a
whistle. He starts limping. He becomes childish and forgetful. He loses all
his senses. He loses his digestive power but longs for youthful items. His
memory too fails. His tastes and demands also become childish
II. You have been chosen by your dramatics teacher to prepare the
costumes and make up for staging a playlet on. The Seven Ages of Man
With the help of ideas given in the poem prepare a list of instructions for
the costume designer and make up artist for creating the characters of
your show.
Answer:
The artist will be advised to make different types of costumes suiting
different ages. He will design a blue frock/baby suit for the infant. Then he
will design a school uniform of a student. Then he will sketch a model of a
love lost lover. Then a soldier in military dress. Then the justice in his posh
dress. Then a man with loose pantaloons and old socks. Then he will design
an old man in white dress.
Writing Skill
Question 1
Paraphrase the extract "All the world's a stage". (50 words)
Answer:
All the men and women are merely players on the world's
stage. They come on the stage, play their parts and disappear. Every man
plays many different parts during his life. He cries and vomits in the nurse's
arms as an infant. He goes to school unwillingly. As a lover he sighs like a
furnace and composes poems on his mistress's eyebrows. As a soldier he is
quick in picking up a quarrel. He is not afraid even of the gun. As a judge he
imparts wise justice. In his old age he becomes weak. His senses do not
support him. He becomes childish and oblivious.
Question 2.
Write a paragraph on "Shakespeare as a great literary artist". (150 words)
Answer:
Shakespeare has dealt with all aspects of human life in all its complexity
and variety. He has touched all elements of human experience and all
segments of human sensibility. Shakespeare was a versatile genius. He
wrote tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies, poems and sonnets. His mastery
over natural scenes is beyond question. He has a keen insight into human
nature. Shakespeare was a great literary artist. He was primarily concerned
not with postulating theories of life but with the stuff of life itself. He was
quite a rich and imaginative poet. He has touched every mood of graceful
sentiment. He is a supreme poet in an age of great poetry. His description
about the primal things as love, hate, hope, despair, courage, endurance
etc. is very real. He has magical power over words. He is a universal literary
gem of all time.
Think It Over
Question 1.
For all your days prepare and meet them over alike,
When you are the anvil, bear.
When you are the hammer, strike.
Now ponder and pen your thought in two sentences of your own.
Answer:
Do your assigned duty earnestly for no work is smal. Never shirk your
duty. Do your duty considering it as the worship of God.
Question2
Henry Ford once said, "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when
you take eyes off your goal." Think it over and confirm the statement with
an example.
Answer:
Every job is full of obstacles. Cowards do not start any work for fear of
obstacles. The mediocres do not start a work for fear of obstacles. The
main reason behind it is that they keep their eyes on impending obstacles
A man of firm determination keeps his eyes on the goal. He does not
bother about the obstacles which he will have to face. He will tread the
obstacles and achieve his goal in the end.
Things To Do
Question 1
Convert this poem into a play script. Add your imagination to show traits of
different phases of life, such as: childhood, boyhood, adolescence, youth,
adulthood, senescence, old age
Answer:
For self-attempt.
All the World's a Stage Additional Important Questions
A. Read the passages and answer the questions that follow:
1.At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. (Page 135)
Questions:
(a) The poem from which the above extract has been taken is
i) Good Will
(i) All the World's a Stage
(ii) To the Cuckoo
Giv) The Bridge Builder
Answer:
(ii) All the World's a Stage
(b) The one word used for Tittle new born baby' in the above extract is
(b) The one word used for Tittle new born baby in the above extract is
() school boy
Gi) infant
(ii) snail
(iv) nurse
Answer
(i) infant
(c) How does the school boy go to school?
Answer:
The school boy unwillingly goes to school creeping like a snail.
2. 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.
Questions:
(a) The poet of the above lines is
) John Keats
(i) William Wordsworth
(Gii) William Shakespeare
(iv) Robert Frost
Answer:
(ii) William Shakespeare
(b) The world for 'a device for firing' in the above extract is
(0) cannon
(i) soldier
(Gii) bubble
(iv) pard
Answer:
() cannon
(c) What does a man in his third stage quarrel for?
Answer:
A man in his third stage quarrels for seeking bubble reputation.
I. Match the following
1.. All the world's - (a) pukes in the nurse's arms.
2. All the men and women (b) plays many parts.
3. One man in his time - (c) the bubble reputation.
4. The infant mewls and - (d) (are) merely players.
5. The soldier seeks - (e) a stage.
Answer:
1. (e), 2. (d), 3. (b), 4. (a), 5. (c).
II. Pick up the correct choice.
(i) 'All the World's a Stage' is written by:
I1. Pick up the correct choice.
Gi) 'All the World's a Stage' is written by:
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Thomas Gray
(d) John Keats
Answer
(b) William Shakespeare
(ii) A. All the men and women..
B. The lover sighs like a . . (chimney/furnace)
.. (only/merely) players.
The. ..... .(judge/justice) is full of wise saws and modern instances.
D. The old age is second. .. (childhood/childishness) and mere
oblivion.
Answer:
A. merely
B. furnace
C.justice
D. childishness.
II. Write True' or 'False':
1. All the men and women have their exits and their entrances.
2. One man in his time plays only one part.
3. The school boy goes willingly to school.
4. The soldier is full of strange oaths and is jealous in honour.
5. One becomes sans everything in ripe old age.
Answer:
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True.
V. Fill up the following blanks:
1. His acts being... ages.
2. The soldier is... and quick in quarrel.
3. The ..age shifts into the lean and slippered pantaloon.
4. Last scene of all, that ends this strange.. history.
5. HIS.. hose well saved.
Answer:
1. seven
2. sudden
3. sixth
4. eventful
5. youthful
B. Short Answer Type Questions (In about 25 words)
Question 1.
What does an infant do according to the poem?
Answer:
An infant is a very young child. He is normally up to the age of two years.
He/She has no understanding. He is fully dependent on his nurse. He keeps
on crying with broken voice, whenever he feels hungry. He spills milk and
vomits in the nurse's arms (lap).
Question 2.
How does Shakespeare depicta child?
Answer:
The infant grows into a child. He begins to go to school. He is unwilling to
leave the protected environment of his home. He does not find himself
confident enough to exercise his own discretion. Therefore, he heads
towards the school as slowly as the snail.
Question 3.
How does the lover play his role?
Answer:
Adolescence turns the youth into a lover. Out of passion he sighs like a
furnace. Most of the lovers prove failures. Such lovers feel remorseful due
to some reason or the other. The main reason is loss/breach of love. It
turns him into a maniac and he expresses his torn love in tearful (tragic)
songs.
Question 4
How does the poet sketch the role of a soldier?
Answer:
In the poem, the soldier is compared to a modern day young adult. He
thinks less of himself and more of others. He becomes hot headed and
gets aroused soon. He is always working towards gaining recognition
through short-lived reputation, even at the cost of his life.
Question 5.
How does the poet sketch the role of the justice?
Answer:
Shakespeare is the poet of all ages. His justice can be compared to a
modern-day adult. He has acquired wisdom through of various experiences
life. He has gained prosperity and social status. He enjoys the finer things
of life. He also becomes very attentive of his looks.
C. Long Answer Type Questions (In about 50 words)
Question 1.
How does the poet sketch the old age?
Answer:
Old age is the worst and the most pitiable of all ages. Man in this age
begins to lose both his physical and mental charm. He loses his
assertiveness and firmness. He also shrinks in stature and personality. He
all of his senses. He becomes a physical wreck due to his deformed figure.
His life becomes hellish.
Question 2.
Shakespeare was a versatile genius. Justify.
Answer:
Shakespeare wrote tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies, poems and
sonnets. He was not of an age but of all times. He was not a man but a
phenomenon. He was not an imitator but an instrument of nature. Nature
spoke through him. He was never fresh. He dealt with the entire length and
breadth of human life and character in all its complexity and variety. He
combined various dramatic gifts in a balanced form. His mastery of
individual scenes was beyond question. He had a keen insight into human
nature. He was the master of human psychology.
All the World's a Stage Introduction
William Shakespeare compares the world with a stage. Men and women
come on this stage, play their parts and die. The poem describes the seven
stages in a man's life.
All the World's a Stage Summary in English
The poet calls this world a stage. The human beings come and play their
parts here.
There are seven stages in a man's life. In his first stage, the infant cries and
vomits in the nurse's arms. The second stage is that of a school-boy who
goes to school unwillingly. On growing up, he enters the third stage. He
becomes a lover. He is full of passion for his mistress and composes sad
songs. As a soldier, he takes a pledge to dedicate his services to the nation
without fear of the enemy's cannon
As a judge in his fifth stage, he tries to maintain the dignity and honour of
the Chair. He adapts mannerism to show his wisdom. Then he becomes
lean and weak in his sixth stage. His strength fails him. His clothes become
loose. He fails even to walk steadily. He still retains his manly voice. In the
last stage, all of his senses betray him. He enters the stage of the second
childishness and forgetfulness. He lives on the mercy of others..... Pk25ng
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