Ironical Significance: The title of Arms and The Man is chose after careful consideration. The title is both apt chosen attractive and the dramatist’s choices justified. It is an ironical reversal of Virgil’s original intention. Virgil in his famous epic The Aencid recounts the martial exploits and adventures of Aeneid. But Shaw does not look at war with the same eyes as Virgil. He does not write this drama to speak about the glories of war. He rather proves that heroism and utter foolishness do
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Characters Raina Petkoff Raina‚ the heroine of the play‚ is the only child of Major Petkoff and Catherine Petkoff. She is a "romantic" and had romantic notions of love and war. Catherine Petkoff Catherine Petkoff‚ Raina’s mother‚ is a middle-aged affected woman‚ who wishes to pass off as a Viennese lady. She is "imperiously energetic" and good-looking. Louka Louka‚ a servant girl in the Petkoff household‚ is proud and looks down on servility. She is ambitious and wishes to rise in life. Nicola
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: George Bernard Shaw‚ “Arms and the Man: A Pleasant Play.” Introduction by Rodelle Wientraub. Edited by Dan H. Laurence. Penguin Books‚ 2006. Text Summary of Act One The scene is set in Bulgaria in November of 1885‚ during the Serbo-Bulgarian war. In a small town near the Dragoman Pass‚ a young lady loiters on the balcony off her bedchamber‚ looking out at the romantic night in the Balkan Mountains. Raina Petkoff is dressed in a nightgown but covered by a costly fur mantle. Her mother‚ Catherine
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ARMS AND THE MAN: ACT 2 ‘ EXTRACT 1 - page30 Nicola:” Be warned in time‚ Louka: mend your manners………… Nicola:……………...But you’re young: you’re young!” 1. What does Nicola warn Louka about? It’s a fine spring morning‚ Nicola‚ the manservant and Louka‚ the maidservant of the Petkoffs are talking to each other. Louka‚ smoking a cigarette is standing‚ between the table (the table that was laid in the garden) and the house‚ turning her back with contempt on the manservant who is chastising her for her
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George Bernard Shaw wrote Arms and the Man in 1893 during the Victorian era when most plays were lighter dramas or comedies in the vein of The Importance of Being Earnest‚ which was a play about manners and other Victorian conventions. Still‚ in many ways‚ Arms and the Man‚ despite some of its themes‚ is a perfect example of Victorian literature. The play opened to the British public in 1894 to mixed reviews and was one of the plays included in the Plays Pleasant Volume which included a few of Shaw’s
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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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Play analysis "Arms and the Man" By Bernard Shaw "Arms and the Man" starts with gunfire on a dark street in a small town. The romantic and willful Raina is about to begin her true-life adventure by sheltering the handsome fugitive Bluntschli‚ enemy of her equally handsome fiancé Sergius The setting of the play is in war-torn Bulgaria‚ and focuses not only on the romance between the young people of the play‚ but the atrocities that go on during war times and the ability of people not so very
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Realism was a general movement in 19th-century theatre that developed a set of dramatic and theatrical conventions with the aim of bringing a greater fidelity of real life to texts and performances. It shared many stylistic choices with naturalism‚ including a focus on everyday (middle-class) drama‚ colloquial speech‚ and mundane settings. Realism and naturalism diverge chiefly on the degree of choice that characters have: while naturalism believes in the overall strength of external forces over
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Raina Petkoff Raina is one of Shaw’s most delightful heroines from his early plays. In the opening scenes of the play‚ she is presented as being a romantically idealistic person in love with the noble ideal of war and love; yet‚ she is also aware that she is playing a game‚ that she is a poseuse who enjoys making dramatic entrances (her mother is aware that Raina listens at doors in order to know when to make an effective entrance)‚ and she is very quixotic in her views on love and war. Whenever
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