Shaw's views on civilized society and soldier.
The civilized society, according to Shaw, consists in property, religions, marriage, some vested duties to the state and mutual understandings that remain wrapped up by the sheet of counterfeit and truth. Shaw has delivered blows on our smoky ideas in unbiased manner. In "Arms and the Man" he has lampooned the romantic notions associated with love, marriage and war. The voice of Virgil (in Aeneid) has been re-echoed satirically.
According to Shaw, a soldier who is assumed taking the biggest risk, is taken for an icon of bravery. Raina, if taken for the implied conviction, idolizes the knight (Sergius). She worships "the superman" with his military uniform on, chivalry and elegant talks, which virtually distinguish him from the rank and file. For common men they seem to provide lessons of courage, patriotism, faith, hope and charity. Thus, a soldier stands to be an idol and the civillion is an idolator.
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