| Title: | Notes on G. B. Shaw’s Women Characters |
| Authors: | Constantin Manea, Camelia Manea |
| Publication: | Language and Literature – European Landmarks of Identity, 4 (2), p. 73-80 |
| p-ISSN: | 1843-1577 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din Pitești |
| Place: | Pitești |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | The present paper focuses on some the most typical stances selected out of the broad gamut of women characters that G. B. Shaw used as revealing dramatis personae in his plays – on account of their being vividly intelligent, demonstrative and resourceful dramatic characters: viz. the ‘Unwomanly Woman’ – a Shavian type as representative of his personal character gallery as is his ‘Superman’ – (e.g. Mrs. Warren), the ‘Acquisitive Woman’ (e.g. Blanche Sartorius in ‘Widowers’ Houses’), the ‘Liberal Woman’ (e.g. Lady Britomart in ‘Major Barbara’), the ‘Tough Woman’ (e.g. Mrs. Dudgeon in ‘The Devil’s Disciple’), the ‘Mother-Woman’ (e.g. Gloria in ‘You Never Can Tell’, Lavinia in ‘Androcles and the Lion’), the ‘Virgin Mother’ (e.g. Candida in the play of the same title), the ‘Gentle Woman’ (e.g. Nora in ‘John Bull’s Other Island’, Lina Szczpanowska in ‘Misalliance’), Philistine women (e.g. Judith in ‘The Devil’s Disciple’), and the histrionic woman (e.g. Raina in ‘Arms and he Man’). The general conclusion of this modest contribution is that Shaw essentially opposed the type of the possessive woman to a more congenial principle of overall humanity, as an ad-hoc compendium-cum-demonstration of the wide compass of the feminine psychological and prototypical complexity. |
| Key words: | Shavian characters, woman characters, tentative taxonomy |
| Language: | English |
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