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Candida by george bernard shaw5/12/2023 Shaw is out to attack valiantly the drab sentimentality by the weapon of his thesis and idea. Thus, the story is divested of the romantic glamour that we expect from a romantic fiction or drama. The uniqueness of Shaw’s thinking is shown in the final act where the wife rejects the poet-lover in favour of happy conjugal domesticity and financial security. It is rather stock-in-trade domestic affair that is turned into sheer unconventional stuff when the wife decides to stay back with her husband instead of the overtly sentimental poet. Marchbanks, a poet, is introduced he declares his love for the clergyman’s wife. The conjugal relations of the clergyman (Morell) with his wife form the entire content of the play. The plot presents a parson (Reverend James Mavor Morell), his wife (Candida) and a poet (Eugene Marchbanks) involved in the eternal triangle of love. It is the story of eternal triangle that Shaw deals with in an unconventional way. It is a common plot out of which the theme of the play is spun out. The play is often categorized as a comedy, an anti-romantic play and a drama of ideas. Written in 1895, George Bernard Shaw’s play “Candida” comes second in the collection “Plays Pleasant” and is sub-titled “A Mystery”.
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