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Top Ten Quotes In Bernard Shaw's Arms And The Man

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Top Ten Quotes
1. “It proves that all our ideas were real after all”
(Act I, p. 3)
Raina says this to her mother on hearing that her fiancé, Sergius, led a cavalry charge that won the battle at Slivitzna. She means that his victory confirms their romantic ideals that come from the stories they had read in books, about how a noble love can inspire great deeds.
2. “It is our duty to live as long as we can.”
(Act I, p. 7)
The enemy fugitive Bluntschli is in Raina’s bedroom. She is contemptuous of him because he wants to live and seems afraid to die, unlike her heroic Sergius. Bluntschli explains from his practical point of view, that contrary to what she may have heard, it is a soldier’s duty to stay alive.
3. “Soldiering, my dear madam, is the …show more content…

Bernard Shaw presents those vividly before the audience/readers with a view to bringing about radical changes in the real situation. Arms and the Man can definitely be classified as a drama of ideas since it deals with the undesirable presentation of the romantic concept of love and war. Shaw however resorts to Ruritanian romance which takes its name from the imaginary country of Ruritania found in Hope's book. This type of story generally includes intrigue, adventure, sword fights, and star-crossed lovers, ingredients that are all found in Arms and the Man. However, Shaw inverts the conventions of melodrama and inserts critical commentary on love and war into the cleverly funny lines of his …show more content…

Sergius and Raina become comic figures as the insincerity of their romantic love and their romantic attitude is exposed. Raina and Sergius come down to the level of Louka and Bluntschli. The dramatist has succeeded in his comic intention. He shows that war is not heroic but something horrible and brutal because soldiers are not heroes but fools and cowards who fight only because they are compaled to fight. Sergius's heroic victory appears in a comic light when it is discovered that he could win only because the Serbian gunmen had the wrong ammunition with them. Sergius makes love to Louka as soon as Raina's back is turned, soon after "the higher love scene". This way Shaw has shown the flaw of romantic ideals of love and war, his purpose in writing the play. He has given a number of fun and humor for his readers and audience, but same time he has also achieved his serious

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