This speech, from Act II Scene 7 of Shakespeare's play As You Like It, contains images of a man at various stages of his life. These images are strengthened with simile and metaphor and judicious choice of words. First we see the baby in his nurse's arms, "mewling and puking", Then we see him as a schoolboy, "whining" and "creeping like snail" because he doesn't want to go to school. We see him as a lover, "sighing like furnace", another simile. As a soldier, we are told he is "bearded like the pard", and he is "seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth." We can visualize him charging the cannons, sword in hand, swearing his strange oaths. The justice is fat and pompous, as we understand from his "eyes severe and beard of formal cut". The choice of the word "formal" tells so much here. The most vibrant picture is of the elderly man, wearing outsized clothes because he is too cheap to buy new ones since he has grown thinner, now having a "shrunk shank" (nice alliteration!). We can hear his voice which "pipes and whistles"; I'm sure you have known older men who talked like that. The last stage is less visual although very powerful.
-Simile
"And shining morning face, creeping like snail" (8).
The comparison: The little school boy who is unwilling to go to school is as slow as a snail.
There are a number of figures of speech in Jaques's famous speech from As You Like It. Examples:Assonance: "mewling and puking"Simile: "creeping like snail", "bearded like the pard"Allusion: "the lean and slippered Pantaloon"Accumulation: "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."Alliteration: "shrunk shank"Metaphor: "All the world's a stage"Hyperbaton: "with eyes severe"
"bearded like the pard", "creeping like snail", "sighing like furnace"
"the bubble reputation", "the cannon's mouth", "with good capon lin'd".
The whole speech is one big extended metaphor. "All the world's a stage . . .", well like a stage anyway. Which is why this is a metaphor.
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Shakespeare, in this speech, has Jaques set up an extended metaphor. "All the world's a stage", he says, and what he means is that people's lives are like actors on the stage; they are "merely players" and play "many parts". Now, just after saying that a man plays many parts he says "his acts being seven ages". Acts are parts of a play, and ages can be viewed as parts of a lifetime. In each of these parts of his lifetime, Jaques says, the man plays a different part. And then he goes on to describe each one of them.
"Shrunk shank" is the best.
The whole speech is one big extended metaphor. "All the world's a stage . . .", well like a stage anyway. Which is why this is a metaphor.
"the bubble reputation", "the cannon's mouth", "with good capon lin'd".
"the bubble reputation", "the cannon's mouth", "with good capon lin'd".
In the words "The seven ages of man" there are seven syllables.
The seven ages of man.
The Seven Ages of Man - 1914 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
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