CANDIDA AS A PROBLEM PLAY
A problem play is a play in the tradition of realism dealing with a problem, social ,moral, political, philosophical and so on. The Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen pioneered this kind of drama in Europe, and Bernard shaw in England followed suit.
Candida is a typical shavian problem play that handles the problem of love and marriage, man -woman relationship.The arrival of the young poet, Eugene Marchbanks, James, and his long-married wife, Candida, catapults their happy married life, as the middle-aged Candida discovers herself strangely caugnht in between the-dependent husband and her independent lover.
Shaw chooses an apparently stereotypical love-triangle, in which a married woman falls in an extra marriatal affair. But he characteristically turns the table as a woman is neither driven out by her husband, nor does she elope with her unlawful lover Candida stays back with Morell because he is waeker than Marchbanks, and Morell is no longer the strong and self-important husband. It is rather Candida who is emotional as well as social economic condition.
Candida's choice reflects Shaw's insistence on the importance of the practical wisdom . Candida is a thoroughly practical minded woman in this play. However, the play has a conventional sense of pleasantness is not allowing the institution of marriage to be seriously challenged by love. Thus 'Candida' is a problem play.
A problem play is a play in the tradition of realism dealing with a problem, social ,moral, political, philosophical and so on. The Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen pioneered this kind of drama in Europe, and Bernard shaw in England followed suit.
Candida is a typical shavian problem play that handles the problem of love and marriage, man -woman relationship.The arrival of the young poet, Eugene Marchbanks, James, and his long-married wife, Candida, catapults their happy married life, as the middle-aged Candida discovers herself strangely caugnht in between the-dependent husband and her independent lover.
Shaw chooses an apparently stereotypical love-triangle, in which a married woman falls in an extra marriatal affair. But he characteristically turns the table as a woman is neither driven out by her husband, nor does she elope with her unlawful lover Candida stays back with Morell because he is waeker than Marchbanks, and Morell is no longer the strong and self-important husband. It is rather Candida who is emotional as well as social economic condition.
Candida's choice reflects Shaw's insistence on the importance of the practical wisdom . Candida is a thoroughly practical minded woman in this play. However, the play has a conventional sense of pleasantness is not allowing the institution of marriage to be seriously challenged by love. Thus 'Candida' is a problem play.
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