In the soliloquy all the worlds a stage by William Shakespeare what does the passage mean?

Answer 1

shakespear has compared the world as a stage because he had lived half his life acting stuff that had happend to people, and a lot of playces and dreams that includes the world! but only in one place 'wich is the stage!

Also because he had lived all his life making up acts and it includes all of the stuff [places, people, love stories Ike romio and jeliet!and all off that it maens the world to him!

Answer 2

My interpretation would be that the world is just a sort of play, and the people, the places, none of it's real. Here is the whole monologue:

"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. 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. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful Ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow. 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. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion;

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." - Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)

Answer 3

It's a metaphor. Jaques does not mean that the world is actually a stage, but only that it is like a stage, and all the men and women are like people who are playing a part, having entrances and exits and so on. This metaphor turns up in Shakespeare's work all the time, not just in As You Like It e.g. "I hold the world but as a stage, Gratiano" (Merchant of Venice), "And let this world no longer be a stage" (Henry IV Part 1), "When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (King Lear)

Answer 4

Shakespeare's "all the world's a stage" soliloquy means that everyone's life is meaningless because all life ends in death.

Answer 5

It basically means that we play different roles in our lives, such as a mother, friend, teacher, etc.

Answer 6

Jaques: 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.