Arms and the man by George Bernard Shaw summary of act one of Arms and the Man
BY
George Bernard Shaw
Made by-Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain
Ex-Student, Jagannath University College,Dept. of English .Dhaka.
Summary of act one
Arms and the Man BY George Bernard Shaw.
Made by-Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain
Ex-Student, Jagannath University,Dept. of English , Dhaka .
Arms and the man by George Bernard Shaw summary of act one of Arms and the Man
BY
George Bernard Shaw
Made by-Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain
Ex-Student, Jagannath University College,Dept. of English .Dhaka.
Summary of act one
Arms and the Man BY George Bernard Shaw.
Made by-Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain
Ex-Student, Jagannath University,Dept. of English , Dhaka .
This is the first chapter of a novel I'll never finish. I wrote it in 1995 and published it on my personal web site, and then lost track of it. I recently found it again via the Wayback Machine on Archive.org. Many thanks to whoever thought to archive it there!
From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance in postīŋŊWorld War II Japan.Kyoto, Japan, 1948. If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist. Such is eight-year-old Noriko Nori Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin.The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Though her grandparents take her in, they do so only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life for what it is, despite her natural intellect and nagging curiosity about what lies outside the attic's walls. But when chance brings her legitimate older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him the first person who will allow her to question, and the siblings form an unlikely but powerful bondīŋŊa bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of itīŋŊa battle that just might cost her everything.Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to try to break free. .
Summary of act one
Arms and the Man
BY
George Bernard Shaw
âArms and the Man: A Pleasant Play.â
Made by-Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain
Ex-Student, Jagannath University,Dhaka.
Dept. of English
The play 'Arms and the Man' begins in the bedroom of Raina Petkoff in a Bulgarian town in 1885.it was the time of Serbo-Bulgarian War. As the play opens, Catherine Petkoff and her daughter, Raina, have just heard that the Bulgarians have scored a tremendous victory in a cavalry charge led by Raina's fiancÊ, Major Sergius Saranoff, who is in the same regiment as Raina's father, Major Paul Petkoff. Raina is so impressed with the noble deeds of her fiancÊ that she fears that she might never be able to live up to his nobility..-----------
This is the first chapter of a novel I'll never finish. I wrote it in 1995 and published it on my personal web site, and then lost track of it. I recently found it again via the Wayback Machine on Archive.org. Many thanks to whoever thought to archive it there!
From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance in postīŋŊWorld War II Japan.Kyoto, Japan, 1948. If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist. Such is eight-year-old Noriko Nori Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin.The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Though her grandparents take her in, they do so only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life for what it is, despite her natural intellect and nagging curiosity about what lies outside the attic's walls. But when chance brings her legitimate older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him the first person who will allow her to question, and the siblings form an unlikely but powerful bondīŋŊa bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of itīŋŊa battle that just might cost her everything.Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to try to break free. .
Summary of act one
Arms and the Man
BY
George Bernard Shaw
âArms and the Man: A Pleasant Play.â
Made by-Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain
Ex-Student, Jagannath University,Dhaka.
Dept. of English
The play 'Arms and the Man' begins in the bedroom of Raina Petkoff in a Bulgarian town in 1885.it was the time of Serbo-Bulgarian War. As the play opens, Catherine Petkoff and her daughter, Raina, have just heard that the Bulgarians have scored a tremendous victory in a cavalry charge led by Raina's fiancÊ, Major Sergius Saranoff, who is in the same regiment as Raina's father, Major Paul Petkoff. Raina is so impressed with the noble deeds of her fiancÊ that she fears that she might never be able to live up to his nobility..-----------
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Character Profiles- Arms and the Man
BY George Bernard Shaw
âArms and the Man: A Pleasant Play.â
Made by-Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain
Ex-Student, Jagannath University,Dhaka.
Dept. of English
Character Profiles of Arms and the Man BY
George Bernard Shaw
Made by-Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain
Ex-Student, Jagannath University,Dhaka.
Dept. of English
A brief synopsis of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales". Please allow for the slides to advance as you read along. Enjoy this simple, but effective, presentation for your secondary English Language Arts class!
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Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the second division returned from the Rhine in the summer of 1919.
There is a picture which shows him on the Rhone with two German girls and another corporal. Krebs and the corporal look too big for their uniforms. The German girls are not beautiful. The Rhine does not show in the picture.
By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over. He came back much too late. The men from the town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return. There had been a great deal of hysteria. Now the reaction had set in. People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over.
At first Krebs, who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel and in the Argonne did not want to talk about the war at all. Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it. His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities. Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie and after he had done this twice he, too, had a reaction against the war and against talking about it. A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told. All of the times that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside himself when he thought of them; the times so long back when he had done the one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally, when he might have done something else, now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves.
His lies were quite unimportant lies and consisted in attributing to himself things other men had seen, done or heard of, and stating as facts certain apocryphal incidents familiar to all soldiers. Even his lies were not sensational at the pool room. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed accounts of German women found chained to machine guns in the Argonne and who could not comprehend, or were barred by their patriotism from interest in, any German machine gunners who were not chained, were not thrilled by his stories.
Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration, and when he occasionally met another man who had really been a soldier and the talked a few minutes in the dressing room at a dance he fell into the easy pose of the old soldier among other soldiers: that he had been badly, sickeningly frightened all the time. In this way he lost everything.
During this time, it was late summer, he was sleeping late in bed, getting up to walk down town to the library to get a book, eating lunch at home, reading on the front porch until he be.
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While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces at Fossalta, he lay very flat and sweated and prayed oh jesus christ get me out of here. Dear jesus please get me out. Christ please please please christ. If you'll only keep me from getting killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters. Please please dear jesus. The shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet. The next night back at Mestre he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with at the Villa Rossa about Jesus. And he never told anybody.
SOLDIER'S HOME (1925)
Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the second division returned from the Rhine in the summer of 1919.
There is a picture which shows him on the Rhone with two German girls and another corporal. Krebs and the corporal look too big for their uniforms. The German girls are not beautiful. The Rhine does not show in the picture.
By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over. He came back much too late. The men from the town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return. There had been a great deal of hysteria. Now the reaction had set in. People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over.
At first Krebs, who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel and in the Argonne did not want to talk about the war at all. Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it. His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities. Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie and after he had done this twice he, too, had a reaction against the war and against talking about it. A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told. All of the times that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside himself when he thought of them; the times so long back when he had done the one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally, when he might have done something else, now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves.
His lies were quite unimportant lies and consisted in attributing to himself things other men had seen, done or heard of, and stating as facts certain apocryphal incidents familiar to all soldiers. Even his lies were not sensational at the pool room. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed accounts of German women found chained to mach.
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4. A Passage to India is a novel by E. M.
Forster and is set against the backdrop of
the British Raj and the Indian
independence movement in the 1920s.
5. A Passage to India is a critique of British
rule of India. The British are not shown
as tyrants, although they do fail to
understand Indian religion and culture.
6. The Bulgarians won, and
it was her own fiancÊ,
Sergius Saranoff, who
was the hero! They
embrace with delight as
Catherine tells the
details.
7. Raina says that it only
proves their ideas were
right. The ideas of heroism
and patriotism that she has
doubted really do exist!
She admits that as she
buckled on her heroâs
sword she wondered if the
ideals were only in books
and poems.
8. Louche, a pretty servant girl,
comes in to announce that
the windows must be shut
and fastened; there is fighting
in the street. The Serbs are
running away and could be
dangerous. She locks the
shutters, and Catherine goes
to see to the house.
9. Raina begs for the shutters
to stay open, saying that
she wishes her people
would not be cruel to the
fugitives. Louka slyly shows
Raina how to open the
shutters again, and then
leaves
10. Raina throws her cloak on
the ottoman and goes to the
chest to admire a portrait of
Sergius. As she prepares to
get into bed, she hears a
shot. Raina blows out the
candles but sees someone
come in through the balcony
shutters.
11. A manâs voice warns her to
be careful and to strike a
light so he can see her. In
the light she sees a Serbian
officer in distress, spattered
with blood and mud.
12. He takes a threatening
tone with Raina, as she
is an enemy, explaining
he does not intend to
get killed.
13. Raina treats him
disdainfully, comparing
him to her brave Sergius,
who, she believes, is not
afraid to die. The man
takes up her cloak so she
will not go out to call
someone.
14. He tells her if they catch
him they will butcher
him in front of her in
her room; then he
throws his pistol on the
ottoman.
15. A Bulgarian patrol comes to
the door of the house. Raina
and the stranger hear the
commotion as the search
begins. The fugitive suddenly
gives in and says itâs all over.
16. He gives Raina her cloak and tells her
not to look when they shoot him. Raina
generously says she will save him. She
puts him behind the window curtain.
17. Louche enters saying that a Serb was
seen climbing up to her balcony. She
exhorts Raina to dress and leave. Then
Louka sees the pistol on the ottoman
and freezes.
18. Catherine rushes in and asks if Raina
has seen anything. Raina lies and says
no. A Russian officer comes in to the
bedroom to search. Raina says there is
no one there and throws open the
balcony doors.
19. The officer withdraws, but Louka
takes in the scene, realizing what
Raina is doing, and laughs insolently
at her young mistress, assuming she
wants the fugitive for a lover.
20. Raina is outraged by his vulgarity, and
haughtily gives him some chocolates
from the dresser when he says he is
hungry.
21. She mocks him for acting frightened,
and he reminds her that she would be
frightened too if she had been on the
run with no sleep for three days.
22. When the man begins to describe the
cavalry charge, Raina is radiant with
expectation, but she is shocked when
he reveals Sergiusâs brave act was due
to his horse running away with him.
23. The only reason the Bulgarians won
was that the Serbians had the wrong
ammunition for their guns. The victory
was a bizarre accident led by a fool.
24. Raina is insulted and asks him to leave,
but the man is too tired to climb down
from the balcony, and falls asleep in
Rainaâs bed as she goes to find her
mother.
25. She has pledged to give asylum to
their enemy, as she once saw
happen in a romantic opera.
27. It is March 6, 1886 in the garden of the
Petkoff house. On a spring morning the
laundry is spread on the bushes to dry,
and breakfast is served on an outdoor
table.
28. Louka is defiantly smoking a cigarette
in view of the house, speaking to a
middle-aged servant, Nicola, an
intelligent and calculating man,
deferential to his employers.
29. Nicola warns the young Louka not to be
rebellious in her ways or she will be
fired. Nicola warns the young Louka
not to be rebellious in her ways or she
will be fired.
30. Nicola is engaged to Louka but says he
cannot marry her if she disgraces the
house. His dream is to save enough
money to open a shop in Sofia, but in
any case, he is dependent on the good
will of the Petkoff family.
31. Louka upbraids him for cowardice; she
knows family secrets that the Petkoffs
would not like told. Nicola explains that
they could destroy her reputation so
that no one would believe her stories.
32. He also knows family secrets, secrets
that would ruin Rainaâs engagement.
Louka says she will never have the soul
of a servant as Nicola does.
33. Just then they hear a knock on the
gate; it is Major Petkoff, Rainaâs father,
home from the war. He is a cheerful
man of fifty, and sits down to breakfast
in the garden.
34. Louka brings him coffee and brandy.
Catherine comes out to greet her
husband; he says the war is over, and
the command to demobilize the army
has come.
35. They chat about household affairs, and
Catherine announces they now have an
electric bell in the library to call the
servants. Petkoff sees nothing wrong in
shouting for the servants.
36. Sergius comes in the gate just then and
Petkoff asks his wife to keep Sergius
from bothering him about a promotion.
37. Catherine says he deserves a
promotion, but Petkoff tells her no one
will promote a foolhardy officer like
Sergius to be a general unless there is a
lasting peace.
38. Sergius comes into the garden, with the
cynical air of someone who has
become disenchanted with himself and
the world.
39. Catherine gives him lavish praise for
being the hero of the war, but Sergius is
quite aware that he is being criticized
for winning the battle in the wrong
way.
40. He says he has resigned. Catherine says
he must withdraw his resignation, and
he says proudly he never withdraws or
backs down on his word.
41. Raina makes a dramatic entrance,
beautiful and regal. Sergius kisses her
hand. Sergius continues his speech,
objecting to modern warfare as being a
tradesmanâs game and no longer
chivalrous.
42. He was advised by a Swiss Raina
makes a dramatic entrance, beautiful
and regal.
43. He was advised by a Swiss officer to
give up soldiering. Petkoff says that
same Swiss Captain overcharged them
on the horses.
44. The women, hearing about the Swiss
officer, exchange glances, and ask if
there are many Swiss in the Serbian
army.
45. Only one, they are told. Sergius says
there is a story going around about
how he escaped with the help of two
Bulgarian women.
46. He was alone in the bedroom with the
younger woman. Raina scolds him for
telling them a vulgar story. Sergius
apologizes, saying that war has made
him coarse.
47. Petkoff asks Sergius to come into the
library and help him plan how to
demobilize the regiments.
48. He has no idea how to get them to
Philippopolis. Catherine says she will
help her husband, to give the young
people a few moments alone. The
young lovers greet one another.
49. Raina praises him as a hero; he praises
her as his inspiration. Raina says they
have found âthe higher loveâ (p. 31).
Louka comes out to clear the table, and
the lovers decide to go for a walk to be
alone. Raina goes in to get her hat.
50. Sergius asks Louka if she knows what
âthe higher loveâ is. She says, no. He
comments that it is fatiguing to keep
up.
51. He explains that you can tell an old
soldier from a young one. The old ones
carry food, the young ones,
ammunition. He needs relief. He begins
flirting with Louka.
52. He claims that he is half a dozen
Sergiuses, and Sergius the hero has been
replaced by another personality now.
Louka at first resists him, then chides
him for standing in view of the house,
for Raina will be spying on them.
53. Sergius enjoys Loukaâs witty honesty
and tries to kiss her. She evades him,
saying the upper classes are hypocrites;
both he and Raina are cheating behind
the otherâs back.
54. Sergius asks who his rival is, but Louka
says she will lose her place if she tells,
but she knows if the man ever comes
back, Raina will marry him.
55. Sergius grabs Loukaâs arms until he
hurts her and accuses her of the
baseness of being a mere servant.
56. Louka answers back that he has proved
to her that he is no better than she is.
She accuses Raina of being a liar and
boasts she is worth six of her mistress.
57. Sergius suddenly apologizes to Louka
for hurting her, but she says she wants
more; she wants her hurt made well.
58. She offers her bruised arm to be kissed.
He says in his absolute manner, he
never will. Raina returns with her hat,
and Louka leaves.
59. Raina asks Sergius if he has been
flirting with Louka, and he says no.
Catherine enters and begs Sergius to go
help her husband manage the troops.
60. Sergius goes to the house. Catherine and
Raina discuss their difficulty about the
Swiss officer they helped. They are
afraid of being discovered for their
treason; Rainaâs engagement is also at
stake.
61. Catherine says that her husband keeps
asking for the coat that she loaned to
the Swiss. Raina is furious with the
Swiss for another reasonâfor telling
other people about the incident.
62. The story is all over town. Raina, in a
moment of truth, says she wishes her
mother could marry Sergius, for he is a
favorite of her motherâs.
63. She herself longs to shock Sergius. She
doesnât care if he finds out about âthe
chocolate-cream soldierâ (p. 37).
64. Raina leaves as Louka enters,
announcing a Serbian officer. He has
been asking for the lady of the house.
Catherine looks at his card: âCaptain
Bluntschli.â Louka says it is a Swiss
name.
65. Catherine realizes it is the fugitive who
has come back to return the coat he
borrowed.
66. She asks that he be brought into the
garden, and that Nicola should bring
his bag with the coat in it right away.
68. Raina leaves as Louka enters,
announcing a Serbian officer. He has
been asking for the lady of the house.
69. Catherine looks at his card: âCaptain
Bluntschli.â Louka says it is a Swiss
name.
70. Catherine realizes it is the fugitive who
has come back to return the coat he
borrowed. She asks that he be brought
into the garden, and that Nicola should
bring his bag with the coat in it right
away.
72. Catherine informs him he must leave
at once before her husband sees him.
He is disappointed but agrees.
73. He goes towards the house to collect
his bag, but Catherine says his bag will
be sent to him. He must leave by the
gate.
74. As Bluntschli writes his address on his
card, Major Petkoff comes from the
house and greets him warmly.
75. Sergius follows, and the three have a
happy reunion, while Catherine looks
on nervously.
76. The men ask Bluntschli to help with
sending the regiments home. Bluntschli
agrees to stay, and the three go arm in
arm to the house.
77. Raina, coming out, is surprised by
Bluntschliâs appearance and blurts out,
âThe chocolate-cream soldier!â (p. 41).
78. The men ask Bluntschli to help with
sending the regiments home. Bluntschli
agrees to stay, and the three go arm in
arm to the house.
79. Raina, coming out, is surprised by
Bluntschliâs appearance and blurts out,
âThe chocolate-cream soldier!â (p. 41).
80. Raina tries to cover up for her blunder
by explaining she had made a
chocolate-cream soldier ornament for
the pudding, and Nicola had spoiled it.
81. Petkoff begins ranting against Nicola,
who used to be efficient. Now, he is
making mistakes, like showing
Bluntschli into the garden instead of
the library.
82. Catherine scolds Nicola for bringing the
bag out to the garden. Raina tries to
cover up for her blunder by explaining
she had made a chocolate-cream
soldier ornament for the pudding, and
Nicola had spoiled it.
83. Petkoff begins ranting against Nicola,
who used to be efficient. Now, he is
making mistakes, like showing Bluntschli
into the garden instead of the library.
Catherine scolds Nicola for bringing the
bag out to the garden.
84. Petkoff begins ranting against Nicola,
who used to be efficient. Now, he is
making mistakes, like showing
Bluntschli into the garden instead of
the library. Catherine scolds Nicola for
bringing the bag out to the garden.
85. Nicola, confused, takes the insults as
part of his servantâs job of taking the
blame for everything.
86. Petkoff says he will fire the servants,
who have gotten out of hand while he
was gone. Meanwhile, everyone urges
Bluntschli to stay, including Raina.
88. The scene opens in the Petkoff library
after lunch. The library only has few
books and is used primarily as a sitting
room.
89. In the middle is a table, where
Bluntschli works to get the regiments
home in an orderly fashion.
90. He writes up the orders, and Sergius
signs them, while Major Petkoff reads a
newspaper, Catherine embroiders, and
Raina lies on a divan in a dreamy
mood.
91. Petkoff mentions he wishes he had his
old coat to make him more
comfortable. He hasnât been able to
find it.
92. Catherine tells him it is in the blue
closet where it always is. Catherine
rings the bell and summons Nicola to
go to the blue closet and get the coat.
93. Petkoff bets his wife a new piece of
jewelry that it isnât there. He tries to
get the others to join in the bet, but
Catherine wonât let them, knowing her
husband will have to pay.
94. Nicola comes back with the coat and says
it was in the blue closet. The orders are
finished, and Bluntschli tells the Major and
Sergius they should deliver them
personally. Petkoff asks his wife to come
too as the troops will be far more
frightened of her.
95. Bluntschli and Raina are alone. She
comments that he looks much better
than the last time she saw him.
96. She asks if his army was angry with him
for running away, and he says no
because they all ran away too.
97. She then says coyly that it must have
made a great story about how she hid
him in her room.
98. He says yes, it was a great story, but he
only told it to one friend on whom he
could rely.
99. Raina explains that his trusted friend
told it to Sergius and her father during
the exchange of prisoners.
100. Bluntschli is shocked. She insists that if
Sergius finds out the story is about her,
he will challenge Bluntschli to a duel.
101. Bluntschli has therefore compromised
her and is no gentleman, because her
relationship with Sergius is based on
truth, the one beautiful thing in her
life.
102. Bluntschli quips that she lied that
morning about the chocolate-cream
soldier! Raina claims it is only the
second time she has told a lie.
103. The first time was to save his life from
the Bulgarians. Raina gets indignant
and paces the room.
104. Bluntschli comments that when she
strikes that noble pose, he finds it
impossible to believe anything she
says. Raina instantly gives in and asks,
âHow did you find me out?â(p. 51).
105. Raina is happy that a man has seen
through her acting. She admits she has
been dramatic since childhood, and
that Sergius believes in her pose.
106. Bluntschli replies that he is her admirer
as much as Sergius is. Raina asks what
he thought about her sending him her
portrait?
107. Bluntschli did not see the portrait,
which she put into the pocket of her
fatherâs coat. They realize the portrait
must still be in the coat.
108. Louka enters then with the mail and
puts letters on the table. She now
wears a bracelet over the bruise on her
arm.
109. The letters are for Bluntschli and the
messenger waits. Louka enters then
with the mail and puts letters on the
table.
110. She now wears a bracelet over the
bruise on her arm. The letters are for
Bluntschli and the messenger waits.
111. Bluntschli reads the letters and
announces that his father is dead. He
will have to leave to take care of his
affairs.
112. His father has left him a lot of hotels. He
is now a rich man. He runs out of the
room and Louka accuses him of having
no heart for his fatherâs death. Raina
follows Bluntschli as Nicola enters.
113. Nicola has been looking for Louka. He
shows her money that various family
members gave him for covering up for
them.
114. He offers to give her some to spend on
herself. Louka refuses the money,
contemptuous that he sells his soul in
this manner. She says he will never be
master of her.
115. Nicola reminds her of all the tips he
has given her on raising herself up to
be more lady-like.
116. If she plays her cards right with Sergius,
she could turn out to be one of his
aristocratic customers instead of his
wife.
117. He tells her, however, she is too sharp-
tongued. She must act like a lady if she
wants to get Sergius. Louka says she
has to be herself.
118. Sergius enters, and Nicola implies to
him that he has been scolding Louka
for reading; she is always trying to rise
above her station.
119. When alone with Louka, Sergius begins
flirting with her, asking how her bruise
is. He refuses to apologize for the
bruise.
120. Louka asks if the poor men in the
cavalry charge had to be any less brave
than the officers.
121. Sergius says no; all the soldiers were
brave and slashed the enemy, but the
poor soldiers are still afraid of their
own officers. Louka says that Sergius
does not know what true courage is.
122. Louka declares that if she were
Empress of Russia she would marry the
man she loved, which no queen in
Europe has the courage to do.
123. But he, Sergius, would not have the
courage to marry her if he were in love
with her, for fear of what others
thought.
124. Sergius, challenged, denies he would
not have the courage. He just happens
to be in love with another woman, he
tells her.
125. Louka says Raina will not marry him
now that the Swiss has come back.
Sergius is thunderstruck to learn his
rival is Bluntschli.
126. Louka says that Bluntschli is worth ten
of Sergius, and furthermore, Sergius is
not good enough to marry her (Louka).
127. Sergius is discouraged, but he reminds
Louka before she goes out the door
that she belongs to him because she
loves him, and if he ever touches her
again, he will be touching his future
bride. He stands proudly as if to say he
has given his word and will not relent.
128. Bluntschli comes into the room, and
Sergius accuses him of being his rival
for Rainaâs affections.
129. He challenges him to a duel. Bluntschli
accepts. Raina enters and asks what
the fight is about.
130. Bluntschli says he doesnât know, but
not to worry, he is so good with a
sword that Sergius wonât touch him,
and he wonât hurt him. After the fight,
heâll leave and they can make up.
131. Sergius accuses Raina of being in love
with Bluntschli, and Bluntschli replies
that is ridiculous; the young lady
doesnât even know if he is married or
not.
132. Raina blames Bluntschliâs friend for
spreading the story about her, and
Sergius says it was not the friend who
told it to him.
133. She guesses it was Louka and then
accuses him of flirting with her behind
her back. She says that Sergius should
actually fight with his rival, Nicola..
134. Sergius is consumed with anger and
jealousy to think that Louka is already
engaged. Sergius and Raina argue, but
Bluntschliâs good nature prevails, and
soon all are laughing at the absurdities
135. Sergius finds Louka listening at the door
and drags her into the room. She admits
her love for Sergius. Major Petkoff
enters and asks what is the matter.
Everyone is quiet.
136. Nicola enters with Petkoffâs newly
mended coat and Raina rushes to take it
from him, pulling her portrait out of the
pocket and throwing it on the table
while Bluntschli covers it with a piece of
paper, as Sergius watches them,
amazed.
137. Their trouble is in vain, for Major
Petkoff has already seen the photo; he
repeats the message that was written
on the back: âRaina, to her Chocolate
Cream Soldier: a Souvenirâ (p. 66).
138. Petkoff tries to solve the mystery,
walking up to Sergius and asking if he is
the chocolate- cream soldier. Sergius
denies it. Bluntschli reveals himself and
says Raina saved his life by giving him
chocolate.
139. Petkoff gasps at finding his wife and
daughter are the women in the story
who saved the enemy.
140. Raina remarks that she did not know
Bluntschli was married, and Bluntschli
protests that he is not married.
141. Petkoff asks Raina in some
exasperation whom she is engaged to,
and she says neither man.
142. The only engagement is Louka to
Sergius. Petkoff replies in confusion
that Louka is engaged to Nicola. Nicola
denies this.
143. Bluntschli pronounces Nicola the
ablest man in Bulgaria and vows to
make him manager of one of his hotels.
Louka comes forward to tell Sergius he
owes her an apology.
144. As he kisses her hand on bended knee,
she reminds him of his vow and claims
they are now officially engaged. He
consents, putting his arm around her.
145. Catherine enters, shocked at this scene
of Louka in Sergiusâs arms. Louka
explains that she knew Raina would not
marry Sergius if the Swiss came back.
This alerts Bluntschli to the surprising
truth that Raina cares for him.
146. He admits he came back for another
look at her, though he thought her far
above him. When he finds out that
Raina is of age, he asks for her hand in
marriage.
147. Petkoff objects, saying they are
aristocrats, and Bluntschli is a nobody.
Bluntschli produces the papers showing
he owns two hundred horses, seventy
carriages, and a whole list of
possessions proving he is quite
wealthy.
148. After objecting to being given to the
highest bidder, Raina gives in, saying
she gives her hand not to a rich man
but only to her chocolate-cream
soldier.