Abstract
The madly rush upon money may derive a person to sell the values and ethics that he is supposed to enjoy having. The human emotions could be affected by the exaggeration of the greed for money and also magnifies its negative impact on a noble feeling like love, but is love a parcel to be bought and sold by money and for the sake of money? Is it not a supreme value upon which there isn’t any compromise? If the case became that business becomes the justification for the rich to profit from the sweat and misery of the poor and disadvantaged, is there any sense of love and compassion left in them? George Bernard Shaw in his play Widowers' Houses gives answers to these questions outweighing money on morality and love in the time when feelings become of little value, and the collected money becomes the measure of manhood and success .In such time ,there is no place for true love in the world of business. Bernard Shaw grants his pen the freedom to portrait money in the figure of a contagious disease which attacks the rich to make themselves richer ,and the poor get the disease from the rich so that they might exceed the poverty situation even if it is at the expense of their feelings, sympathy and morals .
Highlights
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.( Bible-1 Timothy 6:10King James Version (KJV))Money is twofold weapon .On one hand it can be a person's friend ensuring him/her wealth that enhances his /her ability to achieve things that are achievable via money, and happiness which would include him/her and the people around, or it can be, on the other hand, the worst enemy when it corrupts the person's morals
Shaw presents a young doctor, Harry Trentch,who meets a rich young lady, Blanche Sartorius, with whom he has a love relationship and plans to marry. He demands that he and Balnche would live on the modest income that he gets .he finds out that he was raised by the money that comes from the mortgage that his family holds on Sartorius's properties, the widowers' houses These houses are resided by poor people who became widowers and used to live alone in separate or shared rooms .The land on which these houses are erected belongs to a rich family, The doctor's family
The problem starts when Harry discovers that he was raised by the money that was collected from renting the land on which the widowers' houses are erected .The dirty,unhealthy and miserable rooms are rented to poor people in a mean way :they are rented as separate, half shared, quarter shared rooms in a dirty neighborhood in London .The standard of living of these people and the level of commodity and furniture are all low and miserably inhabited and endured with elaborated suffering
Summary
Shaw presents a young doctor, Harry Trentch ,who meets a rich young lady, Blanche Sartorius, with whom he has a love relationship and plans to marry He demands that he and Balnche would live on the modest income that he gets .he finds out that he was raised by the money that comes from the mortgage that his family holds on Sartorius's properties , the widowers' houses (the name was given to these houses and was mentioned in one of the reports of the English Parliament.) These houses are resided by poor people who became widowers and used to live alone in separate or shared rooms .The land on which these houses are erected belongs to a rich family, The doctor's family.
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