Jacques Essay

               "All the world's a stage, and the men and women are merely players." Line 143-144, Jacques.
When Jacques was saying his precise speech, he was not the most sober man in the Forest of Arden.  He is a very depressing man and is not happy about becoming old.  Jacques's line can be described literally and figuratively.

             Jacques's intoxicated quote can be taken literally.  There is only one stage in the big room you are put into. All of a sudden you here the music playing and out come the actors and actresses all dressed up in their village attire.  The world is the stage and without it the actors and actresses would have no where to go.  For example, Rosalind and Celia are not real people, they are just pursued through costumes and accents by real people.

            Jacques's quote can also be taken figuratively. There are seven stages in this world.  In stage one, you are an infant that pukes and whimpers in the nurse's arms.  In stage two, he's the whining school boy. Next, he becomes a liver, huffing and puffing like a furnace. Then, he is a soldier. In act five, he is a judge with a nice fat belly from all the bribes he has taken. In act six, the curtain rises on thr skinny old man in his slippers. Finally, in the seventh act, is when the hero enters his second childhood.