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A Student's Companion to
Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw)
Study guide compatible with Dover Thrift ISBN 0-486-26476-9
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Four (4) Lessons
As is the case with many of George Bernard Shaw’s plays, Arms and the Man is a delightful
comedy. The plot is rather straightforward, but it does offer some unique surprises. The setting is
during the Balkan wars of the 1880s. Like the area that surrounds modern-day Israel, the Balkans
have always suffered from a constant history of unrest and conflict. Arms and the Man is
a satire that exposes the romantic ideals that center on war, which are personified in
Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary, and Sergius, a Bulgarian officer. Raina Petkoff holds to an
unrealistic view of war at first and must eventually decide between her fiancé, Sergius, and
Bluntschli, who hides in her bedroom when he flees from the front lines with the rest of the
defeated Serbian army. The play has three acts and is introduced by Shaw's philosophy of
drama.
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