George
Bernard Shaw: A study of the Bourgeois Superman Christopher Caudwell.
Factual questions:
1.Who is an Utopian Socialist according to
Christopher Caudwell?
George
Bernard Shaw
2. Shaw’s idea of Utopia was expounded in Back to
Methuselah.
3. What kind of thought did Shaw abhor?
Modern
science
4. Which is the familiar spectacle according to
Shaw?
The
intellectual attempting to dominate hostile reality by “pure” thought.
5. What is reality according to Caudwell?
Reality
is a large, tough and -as man gets to know it increasingly complex substances.
6. What is preposterous according to Shaw’s
bourgeois individualism?
Natural
selection is preposterous.
7. Shavian cosmology is barbarous.
8. What is Fascist heresy?
To
believe in action without thought.
9. What is bourgeois intellectual heresy?
To believe in thought without action.
10. What is an aid to action?
Thought
11. How does Shaw’s play become?
“An
unearthly ballet of bloodless categories”
12. The characters of Shaw are inhuman.
13. What conception seems to promise a kind of
substitute for the paradise?
Bourgeois
concepts of liberty and the autonomy of the individual mind.
14. Shaw is a kind of intellectual
aristocrat.
15.The actors are nothing; the thinkers
are everything.
16. What are the characters that seems to have
significance in the world’s history but do not appear in Shaw’s plays?
17. What is Shaw’s ideal world?
World ruled by intellects
18. What is Shaw’s idea of liberty?
It
is a kind of medicine which a man of goodwill can impose on the ignorant worker
from without.
19. What is a voyage of discovery?
Liberty
is a voyage of discovery
20. What should a man govern to achieve liberty?
To
achieve liberty man must govern himself
21. Actions permeate every pore of society:
its life is the action of every man.
22. What prevents from becoming an artist and a
serious thinker according to shaw?
A
belief in the primacy of intellectual consciousness
23. Write about shaw’s messages?
Shaw’s
messages are always wrapped in the sugar of humor; they are taken as always
laughable. His messages are received seriously and well, treating the race of
men as his equals.
24. Name Shaw’s works that have the problem of
tainted money?
Widower’s
houses, Major Barbara and Mrs. Warren’s profession
25. What holds society together in bourgeois society
?
Money
holds society together
26. Who are the contemporaries proclaim the disillusionment of bourgeois culture?
Well,
Lawrence, Proust, Huxley, Russell, Forster, Wassermann, Hemingway and
Galsworthy
27. What does he record in “Heartbreak House”?
Chekhovian
detachment and disillusion
28. Who does Shaw refers as the heroine and prophet
of Bourgeois individuality?
St.
Joan
, Sr.Anto.
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