How does bernard shaw satirise

When Bernard Shaw was writing Arms and the military man in 1893-1894, Romantic ideals concerning crawl in and war were subdued widely accepted and considered normal; an attitude that did not change, heretofore with Bernard Shaws efforts to the contrary, until the dreadful losses of the First World War. Shaw, a socialist, was greatly influenced by Henrik Ibsen who took social themes, treated them realistically and condemned the crushing set up of society. Shaw continued in this vein, using his humour and wit to rap injustice, hypocrisy and self-interest. In Arms and the Man Shaw attacks these ideals of love in a pattern of ways. He grossly exaggerates (exaggeration being the most important fork of these romantic ideas), but does so to an even greater design than normal. He gives stark comparisons between his perceived reality and that of the majority of the population, and does so among the characters, the plot and the situation. He also makes a burlesque of these ideals by eventually allowing the characters to realise for themselves the absurdity of their attitudes. Yet, strangely, perhaps because he realised that his play still had to be acceptable to a wide audience, he seems to allow Romantic ideas to re-emerge at the end.

        During the Romantic period exaggeration of things such as love was common, and was, in fact, the basis of the Romantic culture.



In Arms and the Man there an even greater extent of exaggeration than was common. The characters, the situations and to most extent the plot are all exaggerated in some way. Of the main characters, Sergius, Raina, and Bluntschli, only Bluntschli is not of a extremely romantic bearing, and even he might be considered slimly exaggerated in the opposite way.

        Sergius is described by Shaw as a tall, romantically handsome man, with the physical hardihood,

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