Shaw’s Views on Love, Marriage, Sex and Family in Candida

Shaw’s New Way of Handling Marriage and Family:  The problems of marriage, love, family and sex relations have greatly influenced and exercised the mind of George Bernard Shaw. Shaw, as a biologist, believes that procreation is the most holy work of all, and as a socialist he thinks that all work should be suitably paid … Read more

Contemporary Social Problems in Candida by G.B. Shaw

Candida, A Problem Play:  If judged by Shaw’s views on the problem plays, Candida is indeed a problem play. Its central theme is a troublesome and much discussed problem the eternal triangle. Candida, Morell, her husband and the young poet Eugene Marchbanks represent this triangle. Always what happened was that either the erring woman was … Read more

Play Macbeth: Analytical Theory of Fate, Prophecy and Equivocation

Just as the Porter in (Act.2) extemporizes about the sin of equivocation, the play figures equivocation as one of its most important themes. Starting from the weird sisters’ first words that open the play, audience quickly ascertains that things are not what they seem. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “equivocation” has two … Read more

Play The Family Reunion As the Play of Detection, Crime and Punishment

Duality of Action in the Play:  According to Eliot, a poetic play is more expressive than a prose play, because its action moves on two levels, the ordinary physical or material level and the spiritual level corresponding to the two levels of human existence. A poetic play has a doubleness of action which the prose … Read more

Eliot’s Technique of Characterization in The Family Reunion

Eliot’s Characters Drawn from the Aristocratic or the Upper Middle Class:  Eliot could achieve remarkable success in language and versification; his characters are usually stock characters, flat and unchanging. They are not individualised. They have all a sort of family likeness. They are all drawn from the same social state. They belong either to aristocratic … Read more

Play All My Sons by Miller—Theme of Father-Son-Relationship

Father-Son-Relationship:  Three Sons— Larry, Chris, and George:  In All My Sons, Arthur Miller has presented father-son-relationship very beautifully and remarkably. He has presented some bitter and pleasant experience which takes place in this relationship. On one hand he has poured all the noble qualities in son and on the other hand he has presented father … Read more