CHAPTER 1: CONCEPT OF FREEDOM
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a critic. His work as a London newspaper critic of music and drama emerged in The Quintessence of Ibsenism. His celebrated plays include Arms and the Man, You Never Can Tell and The Devil’s Disciple.
His works present a bold intellectual criticism sugar-coated by a pretended lightness of tone. He rebelled against disordered thinking, and sought to puncture pierce pretensions. In the essay Freedom, G.B.Shaw reveals his view of freedom. His notion of freedom is quite different from the accustomed conception. He understands freedom as an unachievable thing whether the person is a monarch with thousand slaves or a meek labourer with no servant except his wife serving …show more content…
Only the ones from elite class stand a chance to contest election and so, in literal sense, there is not much freedom left in the form of choice with the voters.On the contrary newspapers assure that citizens have elected the representative and this makes them a free citizen in a democratic country.And most amazing thing is that we are fool enough to believe
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a critic. His work as a London newspaper critic of music and drama emerged in The Quintessence of Ibsenism. His celebrated plays include Arms and the Man, You Never Can Tell and The Devil’s Disciple.
His works present a bold intellectual criticism sugar-coated by a pretended lightness of tone. He rebelled against disordered thinking, and sought to puncture pierce pretensions. In the essay Freedom, G.B.Shaw reveals his view of freedom. His notion of freedom is quite different from the accustomed conception. He understands freedom as an unachievable thing whether the person is a monarch with thousand slaves or a meek labourer with no servant except his wife serving …show more content…
Only the ones from elite class stand a chance to contest election and so, in literal sense, there is not much freedom left in the form of choice with the voters.On the contrary newspapers assure that citizens have elected the representative and this makes them a free citizen in a democratic country.And most amazing thing is that we are fool enough to believe