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Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara focuses on the family of aristocratic Lady Britomart Undershaft and her estranged husband Andrew, a millionaire armaments manufacturer. Their daughters Sarah and Barbara are both engaged to be married, and Lady Britomart decides to ask Andrew for monetary support. Barbara is a Major in the Salvation Army, and agrees to let her father visit the mission in the East End of London where she works. In exchange, she agrees to visit his munitions factory. The conflict between Barbara's philanthropic idealism and her father's hard-headed capitalism clash when he decides he wants to fund the Salvation Army. Shaw's comedy, as always, delves into political and social issues of the period, and provides a roster of finely- and humorously-drawn characters.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .My morality--my religion--must have a place for cannons and torpedoes in it.

STEPHEN [coldly--almost sullenly] You speak as if there were half a dozen moralities and religions to choose from, instead of one true morality and one true religion.

UNDERSHAFT. For me there is only one true morality; but it might not fit you, as you do not manufacture aerial battleships. There is only one true morality for every man; but every man has not the same true morality.

LOMAX [overtaxed] Would you mind saying that again? I didn't quite follow it.

CUSINS. It's quite simple. As Euripides says, one man's meat is another man's poison morally as well as physically.

UNDERSHAFT. Precisely.

LOMAX. Oh, that. Yes, yes, yes. True. True.

STEPHEN. In other words, some men are honest and some are scoundr. . . Read More

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شو يتناول قضايا العملية الاقتصادية في صراع مع المثالية الأخلاقية

Major Barbara a pre-WWI play (1905) by George Bernard Shaw is essentially a kind of battle of wits between a father, Undershaft, who is an obscenely wealthy weapons-maker and his estranged daughter, Barbara, who is a Major in the Salvation Army. Dad, after several years, has come home and everyone r

Read this at uni and saw various productions of this drama. I never get tired of George Bernard Shaw. He holds up common prejudices and social norms to ridicule, then shows us a better way to think and believe. Quite the snake charmer, was Shaw, but he kept us laughing while he tried to reform us!

ليتها كانت رواية

إنهم ثلاثة في قطار واحد. بعضهم يقود القطار و بعضهم يمتلك القطار نفسه بينما الأغلبية يدهسهم القطار في طريقه بعد ما يمتعهم قليلا بالركوب.
القصة ليست جديدة فقد نُشرت منذ أكثر من مئة عام و هي أيضا ليست قديمة فما زالت صالحة لكل العصور و قابلة للتعميم على كل الأقطار. أنا الحكومة. هل تعتقد أنك و نصف دزينة

- تتجاذب هذه المسرحية بين نيتشة وميكافيللي، وتصوب على المفاهيم الدينية للمحبة و "ادارة الخد الأيمن" والهزء والإستهزاء ب "جيش الخلاص" ومفهوم "الخلاص"، وهي تظهر لنا عبقرية برناردشو في صياغة الحوار وقدرته على اجتراح التعليل المناسب لكل قضية واخذ الحوار في اتجاه "الأقوى" والأكثر سيطرة ونفوذاً.

- برناردشو

قال أفلاطون يا صديقي: إن المجتمع لا يكون آمناً ما لم يصنع الفلاسفة الإغريق البارود أو أن يصبح صانعوا البارود فلاسفة للإغريق.

مسرحية من ثلاث فصول تمثل الصراع الإنساني على مر التاريخ بين الخير والشر، إبداع لا متناهي من العملاق الأيرلندي وأحداث تتسم بالجدية والتناسق.

حينما تستدعي شيطان إلى منزلك، يجب أ

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