Major Barbara Essay 1

Answer one of the following in essay form. 1000 -1500 words please.

Make sure to use quotes (short ones) cited from the text, with healthy explanations.

• Discuss how Cusins is the third protagonist of the play. How does he reconcile the rationale businessman that is Undershaft with the strong spiritual beliefs that are Major Barbara?

• Shaw considered this and his other plays to be arguments about society. Major Barbara is an argument about poverty. Describe how the argument works through the narrative of the play. (spoiler alert, he does not provide a firm conclusion.)

• Compare the scene at the Salvation Army in Act 2 with the scene in Act 3 at Perivale St. Andrews. What do these two worlds seek? Which is more successful and why?

• Track Major Barbara's beliefs and understandings through the play. 

Eureka

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climate change denial

Choose one of the myths or misleading arguments from one of these two sources.

Royal Society

FOE

Write a paper (it can be a letter to the editor of a paper if you like) where you have chosen one and using all of your best logical fallacies and propaganda tools, you argue for it.

Yes, that's right. You will argue against Climate Change, knowing that it exists.

Have fun with this. Use statistics and anecdotal evidence liberally.

Track what you use, so you can explain it in a reflection.

Language of Persuasion

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Friday work

continue to work on your speech papers.

If you have finished, work with another student, editing each other's.

Write the paper on the Volkswagen advertisement.

All due next Wednesday.

Major Barbara Introductions

The conflict between idealism and realism in George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara is depicted by the clash between Andrew Undershaft’s viewpoints and those of his family members who act as a microcosm of the society of their time.


Being the cofounder of the Fabian Society, a social institution aimed at ameliorating the life of the Britons, Shaw was against the idealistic tendencies which negated the realistic portrayal of family life.

He intended to shatter the idealistic foundation of the so-called societal purity institutions like the Salvation Army which were gaining political significance and public support.



...Shaw's preference for realistic discourse rather than idealistic discourse in Major Barbara can be likened to the superiority of Andrew Undershaft's Cannons Trade to Barbara Undershaft's Salvation Army.

Andrew Undershaft, the special anti-idealist Shavian character, believes that being a pauper is a crime and, as a result, poverty must be eradicated from the society. Andrew's unique and unconventional religion is “money and gunpowder”. He buys the Salvation Army in the façade of donating money to the army to show that money is power.

He is a foundling and it is incumbent on him to search for a foundling so as to follow the tradition of the Trade and transfer its leadership to him. On the other hand, Barbara Undershaft is a major in the Salvation Army and tries to save the souls of the poor without paying any attention to their material needs. The present research concludes that Major Barbara best represents Shaw's philosophy in which the reality and the internal conflicts of our lives are vivified.

International Journal of Management and Humanity Sciences. Vol., 4 (1), 4536-4540, 2015 Available online at http://www.ijmhsjournal.com ISSN 2322-424X©2015

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I Know What you Did Last Speech

choose a politician

UK
George Osbourne

Teresa May

David Cameron

Boris Johnson

USA

President Obama

any presidential candidate


find three speeches, not necessarily from the same politician or on the same topic

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