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    THE ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERS IN ARMS AND THE MAN WRITEN BY BERNARD SHAW [pic] By: Yona Grahitha A2B309032 REGULER 2 ENGLISH PROGRAM FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY 2010 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A) Background of the Study Drama is a literary composition that tells a story‚ usually of human conflict by means of dialogues and actions‚ to be performed by actors. An important factor that supports in forming a drama is a character‚ which is played by players. The character is a

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    title "Arms and the Man" derives from the opening lines of the popular epic of Virgil‚ "Aeneid" : "I sing of Arms and the Man" However‚ as Virgil highly praises war as described by its heroes‚ Shaw’s aim in writing "Arms and the Man" is to provide a more realistic picture of war and to remove all pretensions of the nobility from war. As General Philip Henry Sheridan put it "Many of you here believe that war is all glory; but let me tell you‚ boys‚ it is all Hell". Even though Shaw is very

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    Comedies often have the unfortunate reputation of having little real depth. Arms and the Man‚ proves that notion to be false. Shaw’s play is full of comedic drama‚ combining an entertaining plot with true philosophical depth. On one level‚ Arms and the Man is a successful‚ and somewhat unique‚ romantic comedy. The young‚ melodramatic‚ and superficial Raina comes from a military family deeply involved in a war; her fiancé and her father are both military officers. She is shocked‚ one night by

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    The theme of appearance and reality Arms and the Man are considered as one of the most important plays written by George Bernard Show. Through out of his play‚ show attacks and satirizes the hypocritical society in which the appearance of people differs from their reality. The petkoff family is an example of the hypocritical people in society. They pretend to be more civilized that what they really are. Petkoff always proud that he was a library which is full of books though he was never read any

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    going to analyze an extract from a play "The man of destiny" by George Bernard Shaw‚ an Irish playwright‚ who was mostly talented for drama. He wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings are devoted to the social problems‚ but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. The fact of his being the only person to be nominated both a Nobel Prize in literarture and an Oscar proves him to be a very talented person. "The man of destiny" is a drama and drama is a kind of

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    Pygmalion, by Bernard Shaw

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    Bernard Shaw Pygmalion A Romance in Five Acts 1. Summary of the Play‚ page 2 2. Introduction and Short Analysis of the Main Character‚ page 4 3. Interpretation‚ page 5 4. Additional Information‚ page 7 5. Literature and Links‚ page 8 1. Summary London at 11.15 a.m.‚ on a rainy summer day. Everybody’s running for shelter because of the torrential storm. A bunch of people ist gathering in St. Pauls church‚ looking outside and waiting for the rain to stop. Among the

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    George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion sends me a few messages that he was either meaning to get out to his readers‚ or not. After reading the play‚ I felt that he was trying to deliver the message that finding one’s personal identity is of utmost importance‚ the importance of proper phonetics in society‚ and in a way perhaps illustrates an insecurity that Shaw has within his own love life. Shaw delivers the message that finding one’s personal identity is of utmost importance while also conveying

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    George Bernard Shaw’s Letter to Mother George Bernard seems to be in distress over his mother’s cremation. He seems to feel that this chosen path for her to stay at rest does not do her justice. She holds no tie to this world being a useless pile of ashes. At least having a body gives your loved ones something to come and visit at a plot in the ground. You have your unique mark‚ your resting place‚ the point you can stay at forevermore to decay. Whereas in a cremation the body is foreve3r gone

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    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore‚ all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw When I first read this‚ I immediately thought that this goes back to a classical debate of being ideal against being practical. To challenge the status quo. But do we really have to be unreasonable in order to achieve progress? Being reasonable implies practicality which denotes steadiness and soundness

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    Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw

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    anywhere. Neither of these place are realistic. In this fable which is someone like Cendrillon‚ a sleeping beauty‚ which is someone like the ugly duckling. Shaw try to do a program of reform for society. Ireland is far in a ideology => He try to show that. In popular english culture => Irish are stigmatize like clowns‚ buffoons. Shaw is offering a solution to the problem which is how to fix the world ? If you fix western europe‚ you’ll fix the rest of the world. If you wear blinkers you can

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