“Shaw was a very great man indeed. The danger is that when all the froth and nonsense about his being a philosopher has died down (as it must) a reaction should set in and lead people to forget his real genius. He was a comedian, in his own time; of the very highest order … He was a humorist of the more intellectual kind, a master of satire, art and fantasy like Gilbert, Wilde and Aristophanes. In that class no one had more continuous vitality. He is also, in his prefaces, one of the great masters of plain prose.” (C. S. Lewis)
George Bernard Shaw was a decorative playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics. He was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin (Ireland) in a lower middle class family of Scottish- Protestant ancestry. His …show more content…
These are the qualities of a good speaker required to address an audience but not the qualities required by a good writer because there is a huge difference between writing and speaking. A good writer cannot be a good speaker and a good speaker cannot be a good writer. But, Shaw seems to be an instance to falsify this statement.
“Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.” (Jacques Barzun)
Shaw was a great writer and a great orator too. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of the causes of the Fabian society, which included the exploitation of the working class, gaining equal rights for men and women, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. Religion, education, health care, marriage, government and class privilege are the issues which always engaged Shaw’s attention either in his personal life or in his writings. Shaw was noted for expressing his views in uncompromising language, whether on vegetarianism, the development of the human race, or on political issues. He is the only person who has been awarded by Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award in 1938, for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (an adaptation of his play of the same name), respectively. Shaw turned down all other awards and honours, including the offer of a
George Bernard Shaw was a decorative playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics. He was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin (Ireland) in a lower middle class family of Scottish- Protestant ancestry. His …show more content…
These are the qualities of a good speaker required to address an audience but not the qualities required by a good writer because there is a huge difference between writing and speaking. A good writer cannot be a good speaker and a good speaker cannot be a good writer. But, Shaw seems to be an instance to falsify this statement.
“Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.” (Jacques Barzun)
Shaw was a great writer and a great orator too. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of the causes of the Fabian society, which included the exploitation of the working class, gaining equal rights for men and women, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. Religion, education, health care, marriage, government and class privilege are the issues which always engaged Shaw’s attention either in his personal life or in his writings. Shaw was noted for expressing his views in uncompromising language, whether on vegetarianism, the development of the human race, or on political issues. He is the only person who has been awarded by Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award in 1938, for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (an adaptation of his play of the same name), respectively. Shaw turned down all other awards and honours, including the offer of a