Jacques's speech from As You Like It 

Shakespeare divided life in seven stages in the speech of Jacques in As you like it. This stages  are            the infant ,  the schoolboy, the lover,  the soldier,  the justice, the slippered pantaloon and the second childishness. All of them have specific characteristics completely differents from each others  . For example in the case of the soldier his biggest concern is his honor but in contrast, in case of the lover his biggest concern is his beloved. The same happens with the others ages, it's difficult to find similarities between them, except  with childhood and the second childhood that show us that life ends in the same way as start
In this listening Fred Alley speak about the seven stages of life . In his explanation he said that the ways people react to change are more important than what actually happens to them. Sometimes we could feel disapponted because our life is routinary or even for the differents kinds of problems that we have during the time that we're here but we have to be glad to be alive.

Opinion.- This is a good way to define the stages of life, explain the differents changes that humans have during their life. Changes that happends in a couple of years transitions that ,for example, made a young ans strong man become in a a man with a big belly.                                      

Jacques's spech  

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 ages. At first, the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the canon's mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lined,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slippered pantaloon

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.