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Arms The Man 20154
Arms The Man 20154
Kareem Ahmed
Class 6
ID 14106270
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Professor: Hala
Outline
1-Definition of comedy
2-Types of comedy
3-Characters
4-Playwright
5-Theme
6-Act I
7-Act II
8-Act III
9-References
Definition of Comedy
A Comedy is a work in which the materials is selected carefully in
order to interest and amuse us and we sure know that there’s no
disaster will happen or something will go wrong and usually the drama
end with happy ending to all characters and the term “Comedy”
applied only to dramas
Types of Comedy
1-Romantic Comedy: “Arms and the Man” developed by Shakespeare
and some other writers and it’s concerned with love issues that
involves a beautiful and idealized heroine and love in this type doesn’t
run smooth but in the end it overcomes all difficulties and people
marry and engage at the end
2-Satiric Comedy:attacks the disorders of society by satirizing it’s
morals and manners in a comic way
3-The Comedy of manners:deal with people manners and criticize the
manner of high people
4-Farce:it’s type of comedy that make people laugh very loudly and it
introduce the character with a comic way
Characters
Male characters
1-Major Petkoff :Raina father’s and he achieved high rank in Army
because he was rich man and he depends on captain bluntschli plans
in the war then attribute these plans for himself
2-Bluntschli:he was swiss solider and he have a strange idea and the
strange idea is that he prefer’s to carry chocolates in the war instead
of weapons
3-Sergius:Handsome and romantic hero and he achieved a high rank
in the army and he is brave man and he suppose to love Raina but he
flirt with the servant Louka
4-Nicola:he was servant at major petkoff house and he love Louka
but she didn’t care for him
Female characters
1-Raina:she is the heroine of the play and the daughter of Major
Petkoff and she was so romantic lady and have a romantic look to the
war and love
2-Catherine Petkoff: Raina’s mother and she is beautiful lady
3-Louka: she was a servant at Petkoff house and always try to
achieve many goals in life and Nicola the other servant love her
but she didn’t care for him and for his love
Playwright
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright , who was born on 26 July
1856 and died on 2 November 1950 . although he was very good at music
and literary criticism , his main talent was for drama . he wrote more than
60 plays. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems with a
Themes
Theme of war,love and marriage:thinking in wars with romantic
way maybe lead us to many disasters and in the same time the
unhappy marriage
Act I
Raina Petkoff is one of Shaw's most delightful heroines from his early
romantically idealistic person in love with the noble ideal of war and love .
Catherine Petkoff , the mother of Raina and wife of Major Petkoff. As the
play opens, Catherine rushes into Raina’s bedroom in the late evening to
tell her the news that Raina’s fiancé, Sergius Saranoff, led a victory in
battle in the Russian-Austrian War, with the Bulgarians on the side of the
Russians. Both women are thrilled, and both are very romantic in their
servant, Nicola. She comes in to tell Catherine and Raina that the windows
and shutters are to be closed and fastened because the enemy is being
makes a sound when she hears him climbing up to her balcony and coming
into her room . Raina decides to hide him. And she gives him chocolate
creams.
Act I starts in the bedroom of Raina Petkoff in a Bulgarian town in 1885,
during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. when the play opens , Catherine Petkoff
and her daughter, Raina, have just heard that the Bulgarians have scored a
Petkoff. Raina is so impressed with the noble deeds of her fiancé that she
fears that she might never be able to live up to his nobility. At this very
windows must be shut and fastened; there is fighting in the street. The
later, But she didn’t shut the windows . while Raina is reading in bed, shots
are heard, there is a noise at the balcony window, and a bedraggled enemy
soldier with a gun appears and threatens to kill her if she makes a sound.
soldier . he asked her about some chocolates , Raina gives him the last of
her chocolate creams, which he devours, maintaining that she has indeed
saved his life . Raina wants the "chocolate cream soldier" (as she calls him)
to climb back down the drainpipe, but he refuses to; whereas he could
climb up, he hasn't the strength to climb down. When Raina goes after her
mother to help, the "chocolate cream soldier" crawls into Raina's bed and
Act II
Act II begins four months later in the garden of Major Petkoff's house.
having proper respect for the upper class. Louka has higher plans for
herself than to marry someone like Nicola . Major Petkoff arrives home
from the war, and his wife Catherine greets him . Major Sergius Saranoff,
Raina's fiancé and leader of the successful cavalry charge, arrives, and in
the course of discussing the end of the war. When the Petkoffs go into the
house, Raina and Sergius discuss their love for one anotherand Raina
romantically declares that the two of them have found a "higher love.",
when Raina goes in to get her hat. Sergius asks Louka if she knows what
“the higher love” is. She says, no. He comments that it is fatiguing to keep
up. He needs relief. He begins flirting with Louka. He claims that he is half
a dozen Sergius, and Sergius the hero has been replaced by another
personality now. Louka said the upper classes are hypocrites; both he and
Raina are cheating behind the other’s back. Sergius asks who his rival is,
but Louka says she will lose her place if she tells, but she knows if the man
ever comes back, Raina will marry him. Louka announces the presence of
a Swiss officer with a carpetbag, calling for the lady of the house. His name
is Captain Bluntschli. Major Petkoff hails Bluntschli and greets him warmly
as the person who aided them in the final negotiations of the war; the old
Major insists that Bluntschli must their houseguest until he has to return to
Switzerland.
Act II was filled with themes of hypocrisy and deception . Major Sergius Saranoff,
Raina's fiancé love louka but he can’t leave Raina In order to marry Louka ,
because Louka is a servant in the household , And Raina is a daughter of Major
love with Sergius, to whom she is engaged. As the play develops, a series of shocks
and learning experiences, such as seeing Sergius with his arm around Louka, move
her away from idealism and toward realism. Raina and Sergius discuss their love
for one another, and Raina romantically declares that the two of them have found
a "higher love." . . Sergius asks Louka if she knows what “the higher love” is. She
says, no. He comments that it is fatiguing to keep up. He needs relief. He begins
flirting with Louka. He claims that he is half a dozen Sergius, and Sergius the hero
has been replaced by another personality now. Louka said the upper classes are
hypocrites; both he and Raina are cheating behind the other’s back. Sergius asks
who his rival is, but Louka says she will lose her place if she tells, but she knows if
the man ever comes back, Raina will marry him. Louka refers to Captain Bluntschli
.
Act III
Act III begins shortly after lunch and takes place in the library. When Raina
and Bluntschli are left alone, she compliments him on his looking so
horses, 9600 pairs of sheets, ten thousand knives and forks, etc.),
permission for the marriage is granted, and Bluntschli says that he will
Act III was filled with the theme of love . It turns out that Sergius will marry
Louka and that Bluntschli will marry Raina (with the approval of her
parents, once they learn of his wealth); both couples feel genuine love, not
false romanticism. Sergius asks asks if he can cure it now with a kiss.
Louka questions his true bravery; she wonders if he has the courage to
marry a woman who is socially beneath him, even if he loved the woman.
Sergius asserts that he would, but he is now engaged to a girl so noble that
all such talk is absurd. Louka then lets him know that Bluntschli is his rival
and that Raina will marry the Swiss soldier. Sergius is incensed. He sees
Raina comes in and accuses him of making love to Louka merely to spy on
her and Bluntschli. As they are arguing, Bluntschli asks for Louka, who has
her, kisses her hand, and thus they become engaged. Bluntschli asks
permission to become a suitor for Raina's hand, and when he lists all of the
possessions which he has (200 horses, 9600 pairs of sheets, ten thousand
knives and forks, etc.), permission for the marriage is granted, and
cream soldier."
References