dear Prajil Aman this is for you too as you have reminded me about it : love to protest fanatism read arms and the man by bernard shaw: the play takes place during the 1885 serbo-bulgarian war. the heroine, raina petkoff, is a young bulgarian woman engaged to sergius saranoff, one of the heroes of that war, whom she idolizes. one night, a swiss mercenary soldier in the serbian army, captain bluntschli, climbs in through her bedroom window and threatens to shoot raina if she gives the alarm. when russian/bulgarian troops burst in to search the house for him, raina hides him so that he wont be killed. in a conversation after the soldiers have left, bluntschlis attitude towards war and soldiering (pragmatic and practical as opposed to rainas idealistic views) shock her, especially after he tells her that he does not carry pistol cartridges but chocolate. when the search dies down, raina and her mother catherine sneak bluntschli out of the house, disguised in an old housecoat. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_and_the_Man
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:05:03 +0000