Read the excerpt from As You Like It by William Shakespeare.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances.
What do Shakespeare's metaphors most likely mean? Select three options.

A) People play different roles throughout their lives.
B) People are always pretending to be someone else.
C) People leave one phase of life to enter another.
D) People are extremely dramatic sometimes.
E) People all go through the same phases of life.

William Shakespeare's "As You Like It" is a romantic comedy play that focuses on the theme of love, appearance, loyalty, family, society, reality, imagination, etc. It follows the different characters as they navigate their lives through numerous obstacles along the way.

The given lines are part of the "Seven Ages of Man" that Shakespeare lists through the character of Jacques.

In this poem, Jacques reveals that men are mere players on the world's stage and that we all have our entries and exits.

This metaphorical expression is made to compare a man's life to that of a play, a show that comes and goes, that has a beginning and an end.

The metaphors could also represent the different roles we play throughout our lives, moving from one phase to another, and that we all go through the same phases of life.

In the use of the metaphorical stage as phases of a man's life, Shakespeare expresses the idea that a man's life is merely a play that has a beginning and an end.

Comparing people with play pieces, he perfectly sums up and pictures people's life in general. And through constant change in life, we all go through 'phases' that are not permanent. Thus, the correct answers are options A, C, and E.

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