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Question- Analyse 'Arms and the Man' as Anti-Romantic play.

Answer -

Arms and the Man is anti-romantic in its aim and purpose. Romanticism implies the perception of life through a haze of sentiment. It is the gushing attitude to all one's idealised ideas. Raina represents this attitude. This is the sort of attitude that always evokes Shaw's contempt and he is unsparing in displaying its utter absurdity. Another aspect of his anti- romantic attitude is expressed in the love-episode of the drama. Raina and Sergius love each other romantically; they view each other through the mist of idealism and sentiment. To Raina, brought up on Byron and Pushkins, Sergius is a hero of heroes, a king among men. To Sergius Raina is his lady and his saint. They talk sentiment, profess idealism, breathe romance. Sergius says "I have gone through the war like a knight in the tournament with his lady looking down at him." "When I think of you," replies Raina, "I feel that I could never do a base deed or think an ignoble thought." It is almost a romantic idyll, but Shaw follows up this extravagant scene in his romantic vein with the cynical picture of Sergius making love to the servant-girl Louka, and Raina excercising her fascination over Bluntschli, though not in Sergius outrageous fashion. Romantic love or what Sergius calls "higher" love is entirely illusory. We do not find it in real life and when we do, it is a purely got-up affair, a huge pretence under the influence of some artificial poetic ideal a bubble that is pricked as soon as it comes in contact with real life. As Vivie said in 'Mrs. Warren's Profession' - "Once for all there is no romance and beauty for me in life." Bernard Shaw explodes the sentimental romance existing between Sergius and Raina, and replaces it by the clear sight of romance between Bluntschli and Raina.

So far as Shaw tilts his weapons against the lies and falsehoods that the romantic attitude to life fosters, he might be said to have eminently succeeded. But Bernard Shaw failed to eliminate the emotional side romance, not only here, but in most of his dramas. We might say that the disillusioned attraction of Raina for Bluntschli is free from all emotional bias but that is precisely what it is not. From the very first Act, "The chocolate-cream soldier" complex asserts itself; it is romance in its most romantic aspect. A distressed soldier is recued by a romantic girl; the soldier turns out to be not a vulgar boar but a highly original and entertainment character: it is a pure case of "love at first sight" and Louka suspects its nautre from the beginning, (just as Straker in Man and Superman suspected Tanner and Ann), nor are we surprised when the inevitable announcement comes which declare the two of the same mind. Bernard Shaw satirises romance only to fall under its fascination.

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