One of the most notable contributions of Shaw to the modern
drama lies in the exceptional variety and vividness of his characters that he
provides. In Arms and the Man, Shaw presents Bluntschli and Sergius, the
protagonists who stand as a contrast antipodal related to each other.
Bluntschli is projected as superior to Sergius in point of the realistic
approach to life and Sergius is only a ridiculous foil to the professional
competence of Bluntschli.
As soldiers, the two are poles asunder....
Saturday, 17 September 2016
Sunday, 24 July 2016
George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man as an anti – romantic comedy / Shaw’s attitude to war and love
A self- confessed anti –romantic, Bernard Shaw gives his
play Arms and the Man a subtitle – an anti –romantic comedy in three acts and
in his Preface he explains that an anti-romantic comedy binds itself to reality
and does not gives scope to imagination and idealism. Bernard Shaw, a leading
exponent of Ibsenian realism, eschewed the English romantic dramas based on
emotion and sentiment .In Arms and the Man Shaw is a romantic comedist, but an
unrelenting campaigner of ideas, caustic...
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