Arms and the Man.(G. B. Shaw)Relating BETRAYAL in LOVE and HYPOCRACY from the play to other events and situations.

Main Themes of the Play• Arms and the Man is a humorous play which shows the

futility of war and deals with the hypocrisies of human nature in a comedic fashion.

• It is basically a story of Love and War.• The play tries to tell us that aristocratic pretensions have

no place in today’s wars.• The brave is not the one who is rich and belongs to a

“noble” family but the one who fights with a big heart in the battlefield.

• The play also highlights human natures like hypocrisy, dual behaviors and betrayal in love.

• The writer also mentions the class difference in society in a mocking style.

What We Are Going To Discuss??•We are going to talk about two

main aspects of the play:

• “Betrayal in Love”.• “Hypocrisy of People in Daily

matters”.

Betrayal in Love:• “Betrayal in Love” is something that is

becoming common these days in our society.• TV serials and soaps also plot such events where

people who claim to love each other, betray.• Commonly in youth when there is fresh blood

running in the body, claiming true love and then betraying doesn’t seem to be a big deal.

• Specially in Western Culture, this phenomena is very common among the married ones also.

Examples of Betrayal in Love from the Play:

• The first example of betrayal in lovefrom the play was what Louka didwith Nicola. She was engaged toNicola but she never cared for himand finally selected Sergius not because he lovedher, instead he was wealthy and aristocrat.

• Secondly, Sergius the so called “brave” and “heroic” soldier also betrayed Raina. As soon as Raina was out of sight, he started flirting with Louka.

CLOSER (A Story of Love and Betrayal)

• Famous Hollywood movie “CLOSER” isalso a story of love and betrayal.• The movie features two married couples

spending their lives quiet happily.• But then one man from a couple and a

woman from the other couple get involved in each other.• In this movie Dan and Alice are married to each other while Larry and

Anna are husband wife. • Just like Sergius was going to get married with Raina, Dan was

married with Alice (one of the characters of movie) but as Sergius took interest in Louka, the same way Dan was interested in Larry’s wife Anna and the one who suffered was Larry.

“Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton.

• “Ethan Frome” a novel published in 1911 by theaward winning American author Edith Whartonalso plots a story of betrayal in love.

• The main character of the play Ethan a middle agedman betrays his wife Zeena.

• Ethan was interested in Zeena’s maid Mattie.• Zeena suspects Ethan’s feelings but he did not

approve that.• When Zeena went out of city for two days, Ethan

planned to propose Mattie but his plans were ruinedby the early arrival of Zeena.

• Ethan planned to run away with Mattie but in their way they got hit into a tree and both were paralyzed.

• Zeena now took care of both her husband and Mattie.• Ethan and Mattie now faced the music of the betrayal they did with Zeena.

What the World Says?

• “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks”. ~ Arthur Miller

• “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” ~ William

Blake• “We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense

against betrayal”. ~Tennessee 

Hypocrisy in Daily Life Matters• The practice of claiming to have higher standards or more

noble beliefs than is the case is called hypocrisy.• This trait is the most common one in society.• Actually it’s a mental condition many of us are suffering

from unaware of our habit.• We present ourselves to be sophisticated, well mannered and

noble but actually everyone isn’t like that.• Sometimes we behave in a different way than our actual

personality just to get someone’s attention.• Hypocrisy destroys one’s personality because a hypocrite

has a dual personality and he couldn’t figure out in his life that which one is the real one.

Example of Hypocrisy from the Play

• Raina, the daughter of Petinkoffalways presented herself as a verysophisticated lady.

• She always talked in a high voice withmanners, but Bluntschli caught herpretentiousness.

• Raina told that she has been pretendingto talk like this for years and no one ever caught her.

• That wasn’t Raina’s natural style but she talked like that because she belonged to a noble family.

Examples of Hypocrisy from our Daily Lives• In our daily lives we come to a lot of examples of hypocrisy:• In offices people behave to their bosses as if the boss is the

best person on Earth, but in actual they really don’t respect their boss.

• Friends and colleagues also have this habit to change their personality according to the person whom they are talking to.

• Hypocrisy is also found in our behaviors when we advise others to be pious but we ourselves don’t tend to do that.• This example is much common in our rural areas where

women are bound but men have liberty to do anything.

Quotes Explain Something !

• “Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation”.~Honore de Balzac

• “Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy”.~Ambross Bierce

• “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit”.

~Noel Coward