ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Subtitled “A Comedy and a Philosophy, ” George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman is a comedy of ideas: its characters discuss ideas such as capitalism, social reform, male and female roles in courtship, and other existential topics in long speeches that resemble arias in an opera.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lesson Summary. Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw is a Victorian-era play in which a young woman, Ann, uses her attractiveness to manipulate John Tanner, a highly intelligent social revolutionary into marrying her. The play is considered a comedy of manners for its witty, intellectual dialog.

Detailed explanation-3: -Basic to Man and Superman, which Shaw subtitled A Comedy and A Philosophy, is his belief in the conflict between man as spiritual creator and woman as guardian of the biological continuity of the human race. The play incorporates Shaw’s concept of the “life force” and satirizes the relationship between the sexes.