Year: 2022 | Month: June | Volume 8 | Issue 1
A Study on the Dramatic works of George Bernard Shaw
DOI:10.30954/2454-4132.1.2022.4
Abstract:
For Property divides society into classes and Marriage becomes class-ridden in the society. Equality is, therefore, an essential condition for the free functioning of the Life Force. It is, however, true that the Life Force has occasionally produced the Superman, one here, another there; they are what Shaw calls “our casual Superman.’ But for all their super humanity they could not do much. Why? Here is Shaw’s own explanation : “We have been driven to Proletarian Democracy by the failure of all the alternative systems; for these depended on the existence of Supermen acting as despots or oligarchs; and not only were these Supermen not always or even often forthcoming at the right moment and in an eligible social position, but when they were forthcoming they could not, except for a short time and by morally suicidal coercive methods, impose super humanity on those whom they governed; so, by force of “human nature”
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