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Character Analysis Of Candida

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Candida is Shaw’s magnum opus comedy written to deploy his wit and divulge his insightful critics. Candida, named after the protagonist female character in the play, the middle-aged wife of the Reverend James Morell, a popular Christian socialist in the Church of England, returns home from a trip with Eugene Marchbanks, a young poet. Diligently, this budding poet tried to induce her, instigate her feelings, and give her an exceptional life unlike the one she currently lives. After her back home from a trip to London with the young poet, he longs to salvage her from that tedious life and the complacency she received from her husband. He values and glorifies her entity and propounds his love as eternal. The plot set to portray how this female is going to act toward her legally husband and the foreigner poet under the conventional values of Victorian era.

The character of Candida is somehow complicated inasmuch as takes the accustomed women roles as a homemaker of the family, but she also embraces feminist ideals about marriage and liberated sexuality. On the other hand, her husband was quite convinced that she deserves more care and protection. This enticing wife must make a choice between the man who has given her everything, and the young man who desires to give her so much more. In turn, she is attracted to them for their very different qualities. Candida is fed up with the behaviour and life style of her husband Morell, and she wants to envy Morell through

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