LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Man and Superman
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Devils’ Disciple
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Pygmalion
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Devil’s Disciple (performed 1897) is a play set in New Hampshire during the American Revolution and is an inversion of traditional melodrama. Caesar and Cleopatra (performed 1901) is Shaw’s first great play. In the play Cleopatra is a spoiled and vicious 16-year-old child rather…
Detailed explanation-2: -The Devil’s Disciple is an illustration of this tension in its purest, most melodramatic form, a conflict of polar opposites in which the conventions of society are exploded by a rhetorical strategy geared to subversion.
Detailed explanation-3: -n. 1 a person who advocates an opposing or unpopular view, often for the sake of argument. 2 (R.C. Church) the official appointed to put the case against the beatification or canonization of a candidate, (Technical name) promotor fidei.
Detailed explanation-4: -Richard Dudgeon, the devil’s disciple in the play is described as a man of evil and hate in the beginnings of the play. His unfeeling treatment of his parents shows he has got no love for them. He is known as the devil’s disciple as his character reveals more like a devil in the beginnings of the play.