Week 5 – Shakespeare and the Renaissance

3/ Briefly summarize what you think Jacques’ (Squeeze a Jay) philosophy of life is?

Jacques wants to render a message through his poem, “The Seven Ages of Man” that men and women are ‘merely players’ in the drama of life. They are termed as ‘merely players’ because no one lives forever but plays his or her part and departs. At birth, they enter a stage and during death, they leave it. Man passes through seven phases of life in accordance with their age. He wants to demonstrate the world where everyone just merely passes through taking on the roles of their age and there is little change from one person to the next, demonstrating a world where the stage is repeated and the play is played again and again just with a different actor taking on the role maybe changing how it is done but ultimately their roles in life are already decided.

Week 3 – Shakespeare and the Renaissance – As you Like it reworking of a Rosalind line

Rosalind: Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as
well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why
they are not so punish’d and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
For lovers, as lovers do, punish their lover for being so in love!
And in turn punish themselves for doing the punishing. So you see!
Madness is love, and love is madness they are two and the same,
to have one is to have the other, as would only suit those madmen in love.
So that maddening love that infests the heart, I profess the cure to be my knowledge.