George Bernard Shaw's Apology

George Bernard Shaw's 'The Authors Apology' and Petra Dierkes-Thurn article 'incest and trafficking women...' Both present the same argument from different ways of showcasing. Shaw uses a slight satirical sense behind his apology, referencing that it is a concept to harsh for women, even through the play was written for women, about women. These points are only brought up because male spectators and critics were offended from a woman's sake. Disgusted by the sights shown and discussed.
With that being said, both pieces raise valid points and arguments towards this issue, the taboos discussed in the play (prostitution and incest) though harsh and something no one really want to see or discuss, they're important and played an important role …show more content…
Spectators felt the play was unsuitable for the main audience—that being women, especially young women. This play was one that would teach; and by trying to prevent the intended audience from seeing the play, the lesson would have never been taught. As Dierkes-Thurn states that there are two different levels of incest within the play—that being a biological incest (blood relation) and impulse desire (amongst the two women and the separate generations of men). "the lack of resolution of the biological incest plot in Mrs. Warren's Profession turns our attention to the larger functions of incestuous desire in the play" (Dierkes-Thurn) Because it is never revealed if Frank or Croft is Vive's father or not or who her father is in general, it makes the idea of any suture trying to marry Vive more disturbing and 'frightening' for female viewers. Though this was a very real thing, most marriages were, from vast age gaps to possible relation (usually cousin relations) and dowry's and bride prices at their peak around this time. Where some see no issue with a cousin and cousin marrying, especially if after lust, money, and continuing a family line. Usually it was ales who felt this way; the concerns for defects and complications in children who's parents share DNA wasn't a …show more content…
As well as how one would see themselves. The idea of the characters being "unconventional" as a personality trait either in themselves or other characters. Vivie clearly rejects conventions in relation to what it means to be a woman and what is expected of her gender; she refuses to marry or take care of her mother. Mrs. Warren, too, is unconventional in that she became a prostitute and continues to manage brothels. Frank, as a man expected to support himself financially, refuses to do so and seems to delight in his