Considering "All the world's a stage"

[Lord Tristan]

Everyone knows the famous line by Shakespeare.
"All the worlds a stage, and it's men and women merely actors"
Now, look closely at the All the world's a stage part, if you think about it, everyone has different personalities for who they are talking to. I have found brats in school that were halfway decent outside the school. You are more unguarded near your friends, while with your parents you consider what you say to make sure you don't slip up. We are all actors, and all the world is a stage.

If you find any other lines, from Shakespeare or otherwise, that you interpret and understand the meaning of, post it here. Who knows, maybe you will understand something by lines we hear every day. 

 

[Mage246]

Wow.... so deep.

 

[Sir Saladin]

Alas, Shakespeare was full of ****e.

 

[Itakethebuseverywhere]

Everyone knows the famous line by Shakespeare.
"All the worlds a stage, and it's men and women merely actors"
Now, look closely at the All the world's a stage part, if you think about it, everyone has different personalities for who they are talking to. I have found brats in school that were halfway decent outside the school. You are more unguarded near your friends, while with your parents you consider what you say to make sure you don't slip up. We are all actors, and all the world is a stage.

If you find any other lines, from Shakespeare or otherwise, that you interpret and understand the meaning of, post it here. Who knows, maybe you will understand something by lines we hear every day. 

but that would mean life is one big performance for something. oh my god.

proof that god exists is here gentlemen.

 

[Adorno]

I would prefer a more socially scientific approach.
We are all given roles in life and live according to them; and with these roles comes ethics.
Like the kid at school bullying the others to be superior, only to get home and be beaten by his father (or whatever).

If you ask people who they are they will most likely reply with their main roles: mother, brother, student, profession etc.

 

[Amagic]

Even in those rare times I answer that question with a straight face and without bull****ting, I always refer to myself by my personality, not by my "role".

 

[Itakethebuseverywhere]

I would prefer a more socially scientific approach.
We are all given roles in life and live according to them; and with these roles comes ethics.
Like the kid at school bullying the others to be superior, only to get home and be beaten by his father (or whatever).

If you ask people who they are they will most likely reply with their main roles: mother, brother, student, profession etc.

that makes perfect sense 

 

[Archonsod]

Even in those rare times I answer that question with a straight face and without bull****ting, I always refer to myself by my personality, not by my "role".

I always simply reply "Your god sent me here to destroy"

 

[Swadius 2.0]

There should be a word for this type of stuff. Like some guy making a big deal out of a joke he just got which was evident to everyone around him in the first place, or a high school student making dramatic gestures about a piece of literature nobody in the audience thinks is particularly insightful.

 

[vadermath]

Alas, Shakespeare was full of ****e.

 

[Lord Tristan]

Alas, Shakespeare was full of ****e.

Was my reaction as well.

 

[Itakethebuseverywhere]

i enjoyed macbeth and much ado about nothing

 

[Archonsod]

There should be a word for this type of stuff.

Year 3 English Literature?

 

[Adorno]

You might consider it banal, but large books could be written on the subject: life as a theatre/play.
Psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall has written 'Theater of the Body' and 'Theater of the Mind',
and I seem to recall several other psychoanalysts/psychologists using the metaphor.
Sociologists - especially the functionalists - have also used the many roles in life to describe human behaviour in different settings.

Only at a glance do certain things appear simple; look closer and a world appears 

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

if you think about it, everyone has different personalities for who they are talking to.

Sorry, but psychologists beat you to this conclusion by decades. The concept of 'persona' and 'mask' are quite well documented in various branches of psychology

 

[Tarias]

Oh my God! We're the foreplay of God and Maria! :O

 

[Dodes]

Even in those rare times I answer that question with a straight face and without bull****ting, I always refer to myself by my personality, not by my "role".

I always simply reply "Your god sent me here to destroy"

"If god wanted to let you live, he would have not created me" - Soldier Class, Team Fortress 2

 

[Sir Saladin]

Alas, Shakespeare was full of ****e.

I didn't mean Shakespeare is bad I just don't like the world is a stage and everyone is an actor idea. For example: if I were offered a play acting part in the role of a soldier who is held in a prisoner of war camp for eight years but it is real life and I really am a prisoner of war for eight years I would hope to get at least a million dollars for that role but instead I would get nothing. If I got offered to play the part of a starving anonymous person and I died of starvation I would turn down that role. Also I never liked the "rock" group Rush. Except for the song 2112 which is pretty good.

 

[Suspicous Pilgrim]

Interestingly, when Shakespeare wrote Hamlet's famous soliloquy "To Be Or Not To Be", the two lines "To take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them"  are really misunderstood because Shakespearean English was bat**** then and "end them" meant "be ended by them".


The Ghost of Hamlet Sr. speaking about murder was probably the most chilling thing I've ever read.

 

[Quixote]

I agree, unless you're working behind the scenes, in which case all the world's a backstage