Man and superman
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Peacock Books 2006Description: 254pISBN: 8124800839Subject(s): Drama - English literaturreDDC classification: 822.912 Summary: A drama of sex, the play is a paradoxical version of the Don Juan story in which Shaw dramatically presents his ideas of the Life Force, sexual instinct, marriage and the superman.
Jack Tanner to whom Ann Whitefield has been entrusted as a ward by her dead father belongs to the "Idle Rich Class" and is in search of the perfect woman who would guarantee him a very special offspring., the Superman. But learning from his chauffeur that Ann is interested in him he has to bolt for Spanish Sierra in his car. Ann also pursues him and reaches Spain. What happens then? Does Tanner find his 'perfect woman' after all? Tha play ends with the announcement of a wedding.
The dream sequence of Act III which is complete in itself a fine exposition of Shaw's personal philosophy and its affinity with the Bergsonian elan vital and Nietzchean Ubermensch.
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A drama of sex, the play is a paradoxical version of the Don Juan story in which Shaw dramatically presents his ideas of the Life Force, sexual instinct, marriage and the superman.
Jack Tanner to whom Ann Whitefield has been entrusted as a ward by her dead father belongs to the "Idle Rich Class" and is in search of the perfect woman who would guarantee him a very special offspring., the Superman. But learning from his chauffeur that Ann is interested in him he has to bolt for Spanish Sierra in his car. Ann also pursues him and reaches Spain. What happens then? Does Tanner find his 'perfect woman' after all? Tha play ends with the announcement of a wedding.
The dream sequence of Act III which is complete in itself a fine exposition of Shaw's personal philosophy and its affinity with the Bergsonian elan vital and Nietzchean Ubermensch.
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