Abstract
This research paper deals with George Bernard Shaw's treatment of wars and their warmongers whose intention is to urge or attempt as much as they can to stir up war which largely culminates in death, destruction and all kinds of evil not to mention social diseases such as poverty, ignorance, starvation, prostitution and the like. In Arms and the Man and Major Barbara, Shaw expresses by his own ideas his real feelings of hatred and hostility when he pours his poignant criticism against capitalists and war makers, including weapon dealers, who encourage people to start or join a war to achieve their personal interests. The purpose of Shaw in writing his aforementioned plays is to show people the real ugly face of the wicked forces whose capitalistic and insatiable greed are so profound that they only aspire to personal power so that people can amend their wrong ideas of war fascination. Shaw's ideas represent a revolution against those warmongers who cannot silence him so that no peoples worldwide are denied their right to peace and a life free from fear.
Highlights
A historical survey of literature enables us to find out an enormous amount of war disasters and fears which are immortalized in plays, novels and poems across ages
Agamemnon which bears the name of its protagonist Agamemnon is the first of three linked tragedies that make up The Oresteia trilogy written by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus in the fifth century BC whose playwright was "ever the military man, when choosing how to immortalize himself, had written on his tombstone not that he was author of The Oresteia, and invented Greek Tragedy, but that he 'fought at the Battle of Marathon.'"3Agamemnon deals with the harsh realities of war despite the returning of the Greek army from the Trojan War victorious
In his foreword in Karen Malpede's Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays, the American journalist and political analyst Chris Hedges whose writings are almost about social justice describes proficiently the evil intention of war makers by saying "Those who make war work overtime to reduce love to smut, and all human beings become objects, pawns to use or kill."9For Undershaft and those who take advantages over the ordeals of others despise and criticize shamelessly religion and its instructions of ethics because religion does not conform to their wicked psyches, evil expectations and insatiable appetite for power
Summary
Abstract— This research paper deals with George Bernard Shaw's treatment of wars and their warmongers whose intention is to urge or attempt as much as they can to stir up war which largely culminates in death, destruction and all kinds of evil not to mention social diseases such as poverty, ignorance, starvation, prostitution and the like. In Arms and the Man and Major Barbara, Shaw expresses by his own ideas his real feelings of hatred and hostility when he pours his poignant criticism against capitalists and war makers, including weapon dealers, who encourage people to start or join a war to achieve their personal interests. The purpose of Shaw in writing his aforementioned plays is to show people the real ugly face of the wicked forces whose capitalistic and insatiable greed are so profound that they only aspire to personal power so that people can amend their wrong ideas of war fascination. Shaw's ideas represent a revolution against those warmongers who cannot silence him so that no peoples worldwide are denied their right to peace and a life free from fear
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