Question

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 stages.
Based on this excerpt, what is the main idea of this poem?


The world is small, like a theater stage.
All plays should have seven acts.
Life is like a play, and people play the same role throughout their lives.
Life is like a play, and people play many different roles during their lives.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The correct answer is: "Life is like a play, and people play many different roles during their lives".

Step-by-step explanation:

This passage was written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) for the play As you like it. It is an excerpt from a monologue and compares the world and life to a stage in which players play their different roles going forth and back in their own time. It is highly known and most critics say that it is a picture of the modern world in which Shakespeare painted the idea of a performative world and life, and whose human beings are all just different players.