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George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan's" tragic Flaw, The Epilogue.
Title: George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan's" tragic Flaw, The Epilogue.
Category: Arts & Humanities / Theater
Details: Words: 1594 | Pages: 6.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan's" tragic Flaw, The Epilogue.
Saint Joan is considered to be one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest works. In the play, Shaw avoids many problems identified by critics as prevalent in some of his other writing. Some have criticized Shaw, claiming that he tends to portray unrealistic archetypal characters, rather than well-rounded believable individuals. His plays have also been described as lacking action and being too didactic. In Saint Joan, Shaw reduced the intensity of these previously criticized typically Shavian …showed first 75 words of 1594 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1594 total…work, as evidenced by his lengthy prefaces to many plays, most likely compelled him to include the epilogue. However, the explicit explanations contained in the epilogue lessen the power of the action that precede it. As a result, an audience is likely to come away from the performance easily able to conclude what Shaw's intentions were, rather than coming to the ideas that Shaw wanted to present by reflecting on the events of the play.
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