Shaw as an iconoclast always breaks the conventional and so called traditional rule in the art of characterization for his plays. The play "Arms and the Man" is not exceptional. In the praise of his characterization, Edward Albert commented that, "after Shakespeare no English dramatist equals Shaw in the variety and vividness of characters".        In our present...

The title 'Arms and the Man' is borrowed from the first line of Dryden's translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Arms and the Man is the English translation of the Latin phrase 'Arma Virumque cano' which occurs in the opening line of The Aeneid. In Aeneid, war is glorified and man is shown to...