Appendix I

BIOGRAPHY

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

(1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin , Ireland on July , 1856. He is the

last of three children; his two sisters are Lucy and Agnes. Since he was a child, he was interested in art. He started writing in journalism with the help of George John

Vandeleur Lee.

His early work consists of five novels that publishers rejected, and those are Immaturity (1879), The Irrational Knot (1880), Love among the Artists

(1881), which appeared in serial form in Mrs .Annie Besant's monthly. Our Corner,

Cashel Byron's Profession (1882) and An Unsocial Socialist (1883) first published in the socialist magazine Today (Hochman, 427 - 428). In 1884 Shaw, had been converted to socialism by a process that began with a lecture in 1882 by Henry George , the author of Progress and Poverty , and he culminated in membership in the newly formed Fabian Society. Shaw wrote several essays on socialism and did an enormous amount of committee work. Shavian socialism linked with Fabian Society, undelies all his subsequent works.

In 1898 he married wealthy Charlotte Payne Townshend. In the same year, the two volumes of his plays were appeared which titled Plays : Unpleasant and

Pleasant. The first volume contained the unpleasant plays : Widower's Houses , The

Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren's Profession. The pleasant plays consists of Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny , and You Never Can Tell.

He was lived until 1950 and continued writing almost to the end. His literary eminence was generally accepted, and his fame continued to grow. Appendix II

SYNOPSIS

James Morell, Candida's husband, is a Christian Socialist parson, a reformer and a popular preacher. He is beloved by his colleagues and has a happy family life and a lovely wife , Candida. Candida, as a wife , usually arranges

Morell's affairs and tries to keep him happy. They have a happy marriage and have children, although their children never appear in this drama. One day , an eighteen years old boy named Marchbanks comes and tell Morell about his love and his admiration towards Candida. In fact, Marchbanks adores Candida like an angel and that is why he gives her the picture of Titian's Assumption of the Virgin. At first,

Morell does not bother too much about that, but later he feels afraid of loosing

Candida. He is afraid that Eugene is successful in attracting Candida and she will leave him. Candida feels irritated with Morell's reaction, because he cannot see further than his own image of himself as her master and protector. Finally, the time comes when Candida has to choose between those two men and Candida said she will choose the weaker of the two , and that is Morell. She does not choose to stay with her husband because of his strength but because he is weaker than Marchbanks. In Act III, Candida explains to both men the reason she chooses

Morell. Then, Marchbanks can follow his destiny on his own.