Maharashtra Board Class 10 English Solution Chapter 1.4 – All The World’s a Stage
Balbharati Maharashtra Board Class 10 English Solution Chapter 1.4: All The World’s a Stage. Marathi or English Medium Students of Class 10 get here All The World’s a Stage full Exercise Solution.
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All The World’s a Stage |
All The World’s Stage
- Life is often compared to many things. Write down things that life can be compared to and justify the comparison.
Ans: i) Life is like a mirror smile at it, and it smiles back at you.
ii) Life is like a notebook. Write down the best stories of your life in it.
iii)Life is like an ice-cream. Enjoy it before it melts.
iv) Life is a river, constantly flowing.
v) Life is a roller-coaster ride, with lots of ups and downs.
vi) Life is like a seed, it will never grow, unless taken care of.
Match the approximate age with the stages:
Ans:
Age Group Stages
i) Birth to 2 years Babyhood/Infancy
ii) 3 years- 12 years Childhood
iii) 13 years – 17 years Teenage/adolescence
iv) 18 years- about 44 years Adulthood
v) About 45-60 years Middle aged
vi) 65-75-80 years Senior/Elderly person
Vii) Above 80 years Old age/ Second Childhood
Answer the following questions:
- What do ‘exits’ and ‘entrance’ refer to?
Ans: Here the poetry and poet has referred the word ‘entrance’ to birth of a child, and ‘exits’ means ‘death’.
- Why is reputation like a bubble?
Ans: Here, the poet wants to say that manis in such a life’s stage, where his honour and pride holds more importance for him than his own life. He is very possessive about his reputation and is ready to fight to anyone who questions his pride and reputation, but he doesn’t realize the fact that this reputation is very fragile and short-lived just like a bubble. It also keeps changing according to the situations in life.
- What is the major difference noticed in the 5th and 6th stage of life?
Ans: In the fifth stage of man’s life, he’s like a justice or judge, who is very fat because of careless eating habits the looks are quite formal and he has a lots of wise things to say. Whereas, in the sixth stage, the man becomes old and weak, his skin loosens from all sides, with wrinkles on face. His legs are also weak now, because of old age.
ENGLISH WORKSHOP:
- Read the words in given clouds. Match them with what they signify:
Ans:
a) Stage Life
b) Characters Roles played by human beings
c) Scripts Situation/ Incidents
d) Dialogues Story of Life
e) Entry Birth
f) Exit Death
2) Read the poem carefully and complete the following table:
Ans:
Ages of Man |
Role |
Qualities/Actions |
1 | Infant | 1. Mewling
2. Throwing up |
2 | Winning School boy | 1. Shining morning face
2. Unwilling to go to school |
3 | The Lover (Teenager) | 1. Sighing like a furnace
2. Singing sad songs |
4 | The Soldier (Young Man) | 1. Looks stout like a leopard
2. Ready to quarrel over small things |
5 | Middle Aged | 1. Wise and experienced
2. Is now prosperous and lives a good life |
6 | Old age | 1. Weak, physically as well as mentally
2. Wears spectacles and has wrinkles on face |
7 | Dotage & Death | 1. Lost his hair and teeth because of old age
2. Second phase of childliness |
(3) Write down in your own words the differences between the following stages of a man’s life:
Ans:
a) 2nd stage and 4th stage– The 2nd stage is of a school boy, who has a shining, bright face, but he doesn’t want to go to school.
The 4th stage is of an aggressive soldier, who has beard and looks strong like a leopard, he can fight where his reputation is questioned upon. Overly ambitious and believes in this bubble reputation.
b) 3rd stage and 5th stage– The 3rd stage is the young man or the lover, whose heart is full of passion and he writes and sings love poem or sad songs for his lover.
The 5th stage is the wise and mature middle aged man who has a big fat pouch, coming out of his belt. He is full of wisdom and is quite prosperous now and leads a prosperous life and eats good food.
c) 1st stage and 7th stage– The very 1st stage of man’s life is infancy, when he’s just born, who is dependent upon his mother for everything. Cries weakly, pukes out in the nurse’s arms. At this stage, the baby has no teeth, no vision.
The 7th stage or the last stage is also quite similar, when man is at his verge of death and is very weak and he has to depend on someone for everything. He too behaves like a child now as he has lost most of his senses, his vision, his teeth, hair etc. That’s why poet has called it the second child phase of a man’s life.
Think and write on your own:
(a) What is the theme/central idea of the poem?
Ans: The central idea of the poem that the poet stresses upon is, how man is a mere performer or an actor in the stage or theater of life. As per the poet, the life is a stage and we are here just to perform our roles (Roles, here means the part that we play in the seven stages of life, since birth till death). We, human are just like puppets in the hands of life, we here to play our part and exit.
(b) Which two stages of man, described by Shakespeare sounds humorous? Why?
Ans: According to me, the first stage is quite amusing and it brings joy to everyone. As a child is born, it naturally gives immense happiness to everyone around and seeing a new born doing all the beautiful and innocent activities innocently and unknowingly, brings a lot of amusement and happiness.
The second phase, which is quite amusing, is the fourth stage, when the man behaves and acts like a soldier (though he is not). He is ready to fight anyone and everyone over trifle things. He feels that his so called reputation is everything, without even realizing that this temporary reputation is merely nothing. It will vanish soon, just like a bubble. What lasts forever is man’s true personality and nature, which he does not realize at this stage of life.
(c) The last (7th) stage of life sounds very sad and miserable. How can you make old age cheerful and happy?
Ans: We should try to be careful, kind and compassionate towards old people, as at this stage of life he is again like a small baby who remembers nothing and has no control over his senses. We should try to be around there always, make them feel happy, try to take out sometime from our busy schedule and spend time with them. We should not neglect them at their old age.
(7)
A) The poem is entirely melamorphical. Pick out the comparison from the poem:
Ans:
a) World – Stage
b) Actors – Men (Human Beings)
c) Birth & Death – Entry & Exit from stage
d) School boy – Creeping snail
e) The lover’s Sigh – Furnace
f) Spotted leopard – Soldier
g) Last stage – Second childishness
(B) Pick out from the poem two examples of each:
Ans:
Simile–
a) And shining morning face, creeping like a snail
b) Sighing like a furnace
Onomatopoeia–
a) And then the lover, sighing likes a furnace
b) And whistles in his sound
Alliteration–
a) San teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
b) For his shrunk shank and his big manly voice
Inversion–
a) Made to his mistress eyebrow, then a soldier
b) With eyes severe and beard of formal cut
Transferred epithet–
a) Into the lean and slippered pantaloons
b) His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
Metaphor–
a) All the world’s a stage and all men and women merely players
b) And one man in his time plays many parts