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sugar_popppp's Reviews (171)
I really love this play. Before this, I read Arms and the Man, and I loved it too. I knew Shaw was a writer I was going to learn a lot from.
The play points out a few points that we often discuss these days, especially as women, and one of those is: Society's expectations for a woman to act motherly.
The last three pages sum up the whole play, where we understand that James is a manchild who thinks he is protecting his wife. But as the play progresses, we realize that it's not like that; it's Candida who is actually holding their relationship together. Marchbanks is the character who gives us insight into what is lacking in the relationship between Candida and James. Now, though Marchbanks is much younger than both of them, his views are quite progressive. He understands Candida, which she herself realizes. But in the end, she chooses James, and there can be two reasons for this. First is societal expectations, but then again, she wasn't that weak. The second reason, which I think might be more relevant, is her Christian background.
The play points out a few points that we often discuss these days, especially as women, and one of those is: Society's expectations for a woman to act motherly.
The last three pages sum up the whole play, where we understand that James is a manchild who thinks he is protecting his wife. But as the play progresses, we realize that it's not like that; it's Candida who is actually holding their relationship together. Marchbanks is the character who gives us insight into what is lacking in the relationship between Candida and James. Now, though Marchbanks is much younger than both of them, his views are quite progressive. He understands Candida, which she herself realizes. But in the end, she chooses James, and there can be two reasons for this. First is societal expectations, but then again, she wasn't that weak. The second reason, which I think might be more relevant, is her Christian background.
This is such a great work for people who are new into African literature, as well as for the people who are from countries like India, pakistan and Bangladesh, this defines this power of literature and language and how it affects public perception and culture.
"Is it right that a man should abandon his mother tongue for someone else's ? It looks like a dreadful betrayal and produces a guilty feeling. But for me there is no other choice. I have been given the language and I intend to use it."
- Achebe
"And then I went to school, a colonial school, and this harmony was broken. The language of my education was no longer the language of my culture."
"Children were turned into witchhunters and in the process were being taught the lucrative value of being a traitor to one's immediate community."
"('Catching them young') as an aim was even more true of a colonial child. The images of this world and his place in it implanted in a child take years to eradicate, if they ever can be."
"Is it right that a man should abandon his mother tongue for someone else's ? It looks like a dreadful betrayal and produces a guilty feeling. But for me there is no other choice. I have been given the language and I intend to use it."
- Achebe
"And then I went to school, a colonial school, and this harmony was broken. The language of my education was no longer the language of my culture."
"Children were turned into witchhunters and in the process were being taught the lucrative value of being a traitor to one's immediate community."
"('Catching them young') as an aim was even more true of a colonial child. The images of this world and his place in it implanted in a child take years to eradicate, if they ever can be."
This book broke me, I am sad, but I liked the book, but it also triggered alot of suppressed feelings.
"I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
- Caulfield
"I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
- Caulfield
It's slow at starting and also due to stream of consciousness narrative it can be confusing, I increased one star because last 100 pages of book is really good.
This book is epitome of - how can you say alot by using less words.
