fifth age
             (1) Refuses to go willingly into middle age
             (2) Demands to know why man must "Leave out the worst Pang of youth"
             (3) Is disturbed by time unlike the others for he is still young enough to have a future
             f. Quant's domination of the fifth age
             (2) View on man's adaptation to the fifth age
             b. "Impotent, aged, and successful," Malin's portrayal of a man of this age is indifferent to the world
             b. Malin is ready for this age in contrast to the others' reluctance to die just yet
             VI. Second act of Part II, "The Seven Stages"
             A. Unlike "The Seven Ages," this act is nothing more than a dream
             B. "The Seven Stages" is an attempt to find the perfect time of life
             a. Each character begins alone, "isolated with his own thoughts"
             b. Justification of the view that the quest is for naught
             a. Is initiated by the first pairing of characters
             a. Begins as the couples turn inland
             b. The characters complete the third stage without success in their search for self
             a. Malin speaks for them all in his derogatorative statements about the city
             b. Malin passes judgment on its citizens based on the urban surroundings
             a. Rosetta visits a mansion in which she wishes she were raised and to which she wishes she shall return
             b. While Rosetta is within the house, the others examine its exterior and its comparison to the human body
             c. Rosetta finds life inside the house
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