Shaw Essays

            This paper is a text analysis of George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man.” This play shall be examined on the following grounds: event, emotion, conflict, action, objective, need of the protagonist, relationships, circumstances, and environment, and character. To be able to accomplish such a huge task, this play …

Ashes to Ashes In an excerpt taken from a letter by George Bernard Shaw, Shaw displays much lighthearted irony through his use of biblical allusions, merry diction, and varying syntax in order to mirror his ironic perception of death. In contrast to the public, death to Shaw does not signal …

When we are first introduced to Richard Dudgeon, at the reading of his late father Timothy’s will in his childhood home, we have already learned of his character from the opinions of three other characters: firstly, his mother, then from Anthony Anderson, the minister, and finally, from Anderson’s wife Judith. …

The play ‘The Devil’s Disciple’ was written by Irish playwright Bernard Shaw and is set in New Hampshire in the year 1777. The story focuses on the town of Websterbridge, the Dudgeon family and the local Presbyterian minister Anthony Anderson. The current political situation sees the American colonies struggling to …