Candida

Candida is rooted in feminism and focuses on the independent choice that women should possess while deciding whether they want to be housewives, professional wives and mothers or if they like to pursue some other passion. It can be categorized as a problem play since it deals with a controversial social issue in a realistic manner with an aim to expose social ills and to generate awareness through stimulating and compelling thoughts and discussions on the ideas presented in the play. At the centre of the play set is dramatic discourse is a domestic woman, jostling with the idea and sense of freedom. The story presents Candida as a very beautiful and seductive woman who willfully charms men to get her way. Shaw’s progressive ideas and thoughts that transcended cultural barriers and got reflected in the play helped him gain the attention that he needed to spread his message. George Bernard Shaw's protagonist, Candida, represents the women of the Victorian Age and the patriarchy they had to conform to. Candida’s auction scene towards the end of the play says a lot about the position of women in that era and how thought-provoking this topic was. Some of the very poignant and thought-provoking ideas that keep men pondering can be cited from the drama as: “Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you’d better go and talk to yourself” or the words, “Nothing that’s worth saying is proper” and a didactic and satirical take on his definition of wickedness, “Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because they don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.”

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