Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
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.
Paraphrase: This world is like a stage in a theatre. All the men and women are only the actors of this stage of life. Like the stage, this world has its exits and entrances. People come into this world when they are born and go away from it when they die. One man has to play many parts in his lifetime. He plays and enacts seven stages of life.
(a) What are all the men and women of this world?
(b) Explain: ‘They have their exits and their entrances’.
(c) How many parts does every man enact and play?
(a) The men and women of the world are just like players on the stage of life.
(b) They take birth and enter the world. They die and depart from the world.
(c) Every man enacts and plays seven different roles in life.