The Marriage of Contraries: Bernard Shaw's Middle Plays

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Androcles and Lion are scripts written by George Bernard Shaw in 1912. The play is a show about the story of Androcles, a slave saved by the compassion of the Lion. In the play, the show depicts Androcles as one of the many Christians tortured by the Coliseum. The characters in the play illustrate several themes that took into account modern and virtual early Christianity, including cultural conflict between Jesus teachings and traditional Roman values. Androcles is a Christian Taylor of the fugitive escaping from his Roman persecution, accompanied by a hard-to-treat wife. While hiding in the forest, he met a wild lion who approached him with an injured foot. His wife ran away. Androcles felt the embarrassment of the animals and calmed the lion using the baby's word, as a big thorn was embedded in the foot.

Bernard Shaw (1 856-1950), T.S will be briefly described as a way to express the basic form of a drama in contemporary dramas. At Elliott (1888-1965), Arthur Miller (born 1915), Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Margarion who got weapons after the first performance in 1913, Shaw focuses on irony sarcasm with good skills. In other words, the drama of the show is mainly Ike! It is caricature comedy. Lanre Bamidele (2001: 10) regards satire comedy as a kind of drama featuring dramatic wit or irony. It is objective and reasonable, aims to rectify etiquette, morality, thinking. Other playwrights related to this type of comedy include Ben Johnson, William Congreve, Sean 0 Cathy, Molière and John Gay, and Africa, Wool and Soka. It shows that the show is an excellent playwright. It explains in part: