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 stages.
based on this excerpt, what is the main idea of this poem?

the world is small, like a theater stage.
all plays should have seven acts.
life is like a play, and people play the same role throughout their lives.
life is like a play, and people play many different roles during their lives.

The correct answer is: "Life is like a play, and people play many different roles during their lives".

Explanation:

This passage was written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) for the play As you like it. It is an excerpt from a monologue and compares the world and life to a stage in which players play their different roles going forth and back in their own time. It is highly known and most critics say that it is a picture of the modern world in which Shakespeare painted the idea of a performative world and life, and whose human beings are all just different players.

11-32. the main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of god. in telling the story, jesus identifies himself with god in his loving attitude to the lost. the younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day, luke 15: 1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the pharisees and teachers of the law of that day, luke 15: 2). the major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the father. in the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (luke 15: 1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. we see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (luke 15: 1-7), to one in ten (luke 15: 8-10), to one in one (luke 15: 11-32), demonstrating god’s love for each individual and his personal attentiveness towards all humanity. we see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (romans 2: 4).

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