Complete summary of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. ENotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Arms and the Man. Gundam Meisters Ps2 Isos.

& NOW the Nobel prize seems pretty adequate. It is awesome to see how Shaw has honed his skill considerably (both 'Widower's Houses' and 'Mrs. Warren's Profession', written a few years before this one, are slightly more pedantic and the characters are less likeable, albeit, antiromantic/real). 'Arms and the Man' is finally where we see the full roundedness of all the immoral characters--though this one finally has a man who is less interested in war than surviving it--who is dashing Oh yes.

& NOW the Nobel prize seems pretty adequate. It is awesome to see how Shaw has honed his skill considerably (both 'Widower's Houses' and 'Mrs. Warren's Profession', written a few years before this one, are slightly more pedantic and the characters are less likeable, albeit, antiromantic/real). 'Arms and the Man' is finally where we see the full roundedness of all the immoral characters--though this one finally has a man who is less interested in war than surviving it--who is dashing and brave. There is a slight inclination for the romantic--the lovers quarrel and 'make love' while the central issue is played out. Now we can understand why Shaw is Wilde's earnest contemporary.

This 'mock epic' (it's title is derived from the opening in 'The Aenid') takes the reader from romance to realism, and somehow back again. It is complex--in both plot and character. The attack on idealism, which is what Shaw was truly all about, is ever present here.