To Change Or Not To Change

In his meter all(prenominal) the Worlds a Stage, William Shakespeare breaks life down into sevensome or acts. These can be summed up as: infant, schoolboy, teenager, s oldier, justice, old man, and finally death. As the poem progresses so does time, in to distributively one introduce Shakespeare describes both physically and emotionally the tilt from the preceding(prenominal) stage. In all(prenominal) stage Shakespeare commits imagery and similes to show that shift is inevitable.\nOne way Shakespeare uses metonymical language to show that remove is inevitable is through imagery. Shakespeares strong descriptions help the endorser visualize the on firing miscellany. For character, when Shakespeare says And and so the justice, In fair spell belly with good capon lined,With eye severe and beard of buckram cut, Full of wise saws and raw instances; And so he plays his purpose he all the way shows a difference between the fifth and sixth age. The man going from havi ng a fair plump out belly to being draw as lean, and shrunk clearly shows change. Shakespeare describes for each one stage of life so vividly he clearly wanted to show that change is inevitable. This is very evident when each stage is looked at roughly as if it is a disassociate poem from the whole. This allows you to really run into each age and date how practically change there is from beginning to end. Shakespeare continues to show change during each age by describing what each age is wearing, for instance when describing the second stage he describes a shining sunup face but when describing the sixth stage he uses the evince lean and slippered pantaloon this showed how much he changed from a unseasoned schoolboy to being a older citizen.\nAnother way Shakespeare uses rhetorical language to show that change is inevitable is through his use of similes. In the poem Shakespeare compares each act to an object or animal that is known for having a certain trait or certain traits. For instance when Shakespeare says the schoolboy is...