Prostitution In George Bernard Shaw's Play

Shaw through his play had a mission in his mind that was “to draw attention to the truth that prostitution is caused, not by female depravity and male licentiousness, but simply by underpaying, undervaluing and overworking women so shamefully that the poorest of them are forced to resort to prostitution to keep body and soul together.”(Powell, 2004, 229).Regarding the very notion of immorality and vulgarity in any profession Mrs. Warren says, “Why is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man’s fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him? As if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing” (Act II, Pg, 106). She in a way exposes and unveils the hypocrisy and moral corruption

Warren is not a more awful lady than the legitimate daughter who can 't bear her. her lack of interest to a definitive social results of her method for profiting, and her disclosure of that implies by the customary technique for ending the lives of slightest imperviousness to getting it, are excessively basic in English society, making it impossible to require any uncommon comment. Her imperativeness, her thrift, her vitality, her outspinness, her shrewd care of her daughter, and the overseeing limit which has empowered her and her sister to move from the browned fish around the mint to the foundations of which she brags, are all high English social qualities. Mrs. Warren has passed through various painful stages and phases to reach the level where she has been a prominent business mind and figure of the society."Don 't think for a moment I set myself above you in any way. You attacked me with the conventional superiority of a mother: I defended myself with the conventional superiority of a respectable woman"(64), this is Vivie 's reaction to her mother’s allegation that she is a "stuck-up wet blanket" (64). Neither of the ladies is, nor needs to be, ordinary, however in this citation, Vivie perceives that specific parts of tradition are engrained to the point that they are difficult to get away. Mrs. Warren has been putting on a show to be a customary mother and Vivie has been claiming to be a traditional woman, objecting to her mom 's indiscriminate past. Yet, both of

Warren is apparently a business woman who by profession is a prostitute and owns brothels in different countries of the world. She was though compelled by the circumstances to embrace it and to continue it for the sake of survival in the society. She overthrew all the conventional notions, trends, tendencies, cultural values, and rituals prescribed for women in the society. She likes to work and be paid for that work. He abhors sitting idle and jobless more like other women of the society do. “Mrs. Warren: [.......] i don’t know what is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do” (Act II, 177). She is more practical and loves to work hard. She is self-dependent and individually self-supportive as well. Vivie and Mrs. Warren are the women having a strong determination to be confident career women who willingly invest their time for the jobs rather than spending it in domesticity like conventional women. The success in their lives ordains them with financial independence, self-reliance, and paving their own ways to live the way they desire or want to without any sort of support from men. Regarding marriage they have similar views. For them their own individualities are more prominent and significant than being bound and bonded with their suitors. Vivie spends and wishes to live in a mannish or manly life style which does not even bother her mother as