George Bernard Shaw was a famous socialist playwright and feminist social critic who won the Nobel Prize. The document discusses Shaw's play Candida and how it portrays feminist characteristics. Candida faces the dilemma of choosing between her husband or a young poet and embodies Shaw's feminism by undermining Victorian ideals of womanhood. She has free will, strength and ability, embraces liberal feminist ideals about marriage, and believes in equality between men and women. Shaw used the play to advocate for women's rights and equality and challenge conventional gender roles of the Victorian era.

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2. FEMINISM IN CANDIDAFEMINISM IN CANDIDA
BY SALMA SHAIKH
SINDH UNIVERSITY CAMPUS DADUSINDH UNIVERSITY CAMPUS DADU

4. Brief introduction of GB SHAW
socialistplaywright1 2
3 4feminist Social critic
(Nobel Prize)

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DOMESTIC
COMEDY
COMEDY CALSSICAL
COMEDY
COMEDY OF
IDAES
CANDIDA…..

6. INTRODUCTION OF FEMINISMINTRODUCTION OF FEMINISM
• It is organized activity on the
behalf of women’s rights and
interest .
• Feminism is that women should
have rights , powers and
opportunities
as men have.

8. • Shaw was famous for his outspoken
support of equal rights for women. Given
the contentiousness today of many
feminists. The plays title named the
central character Candida whose name
implies her “candid” thought and
actions toward love, marriage
and the role of woman in 19th
century

9. FEMINISTIC CHARACTERISTICSFEMINISTIC CHARACTERISTICS
IN CANDIDAIN CANDIDA

10. 1- FREE WILL…..1- FREE WILL…..
• The play portrays Candida facingThe play portrays Candida facing
dilemma to choose between herdilemma to choose between her
husband, a social person of thehusband, a social person of the
Church or a young poet who praisesChurch or a young poet who praises
her divine beauty.her divine beauty.

11. 2-STRENGTH AND ABILITY2-STRENGTH AND ABILITY
• In Candida, Shaw created a character
who, by her strength and ability to cope
calmly with male interactuall turmoil, is
a forerunner of modern feminists. In
other ways, however, she is a merely
progressive variant of a Victorian
archetype of female benignity.

12. 3-Liberal feminism3-Liberal feminism
• She takes a conventional woman role as
a home maker of the family but she also
embraces feminist ideals about marriage
and librated married relationship.
• Candida an embodiment of Shaw’s
feminism’ undermines the Christian
socialist and romantic ideals of
woman to introduce a new ideal
of womanliness

13. 4-EQUAILTY4-EQUAILTY
• James Morel is a social feminist he
believed that woman should be
treated equally to man. Shaw also
evoked people’s concern about the
conventional roles of woman
based on Victorian values.

14. CONCLUSION….CONCLUSION….
• George Bernard Shaw was an avid
proponent of women's freedom and
suffrage, and argued that women, with
their tendencies toward humility,
Christianity, and compassion were
ideal voters within a system of
government that sorely
lacked these qualities.

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