Gb shaw arms and the man6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() In contrast, Captain Bluntschli's actions in Raina's bedroom strike us, at first, as being the actions of a coward. He thus becomes Raina Petkoff's ideal hero yet the more that we learn about this raid, the more we realize that it was a futile, ridiculous gesture, one that bordered on an utter suicidal escapade. When the play opens, we hear about the glorious exploits which were performed by Major Sergius Saranoff during his daring and magnificent cavalry raid, an event that turned the war against the Serbs toward victory for the Bulgarians. To create this satire, Shaw chose as his title the opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid, the Roman epic which glorifies war and the heroic feats of man in war, and which begins, "Of arms and the man I sing." It is not, however, an anti-war play instead, it is a satire on those attitudes which would glorify war. ![]() ![]() One of Shaw's aims in this play is to debunk the romantic heroics of war he wanted to present a realistic account of war and to remove all pretensions of nobility from war. ![]()
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