Question

12A. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow in one or two lines only. Remember to number the answers correctly. (3 marks)

All the world’s a stage

And all the men and women are merely players:

(a) The poem from which the above lines have been taken is an extract from the play……………

(b) The world is called a stage because……………

(c) ‘All the men and women merely players’ means……………

Answer 1

(a) The poem from which the above lines have been taken is an extract from the play As you Like It.

(b) The world is called a stage because all men and women are acting the roles according to their chronology of age.

(c) ‘All the men and women merely players’ means they are merely puppets in the hands of their director(Lord Almighty).