What is the style of writing of George Bernard Shaw?

Answer 1

Shaw was a very witty satirist who loved to present people with the absurdity of their conventional way of thinking. His satires range widely over such subjects as heroism in war, physicians and their power over life and death, religion, the battle of the sexes, education, and heaven and hell. The prefaces to many of his plays, besides being examples of a wonderful prose style, are often funnier than the plays themselves. Among the plays to be read in the course: Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, Androcles and the Lion, Saint Joan, and Man and Superman

Answer 2

Bernard Shaw is a great prose writer .His prose sparkles with wit and wisdom. His wit is highly attractive and renders his sentences penetrating. All his characters try to silence one another by means of their witty replies.

Shaw is highly argumentative in his expression. He makes people listen to pure argument for long. He has succeeded only because of his brilliant wit and amusing language and he makes people laugh even while he is dealing with more serious topics.

Second important characteristic feature of his prose style is that he builds up a music in Opera or a symphony. He introduces a subject for discussion, then another subject a little later. Just as a composer brings in one melody after another. Soon the various subjects are woven together into a discussion which interests us intellectually and pleases us artistically. Really, he is highly poetic in his utterances. His sentences often run with rhythmical ease.

That is why even long speeches of Shaw are able to hold our attention for long. Whereas speeches of a similar length by another playwright-are often tedious and project monotony.

His prose, like a sacred river flows with rare ease, lucidity and clarity.

Shaw was a very witty satirist who loved to present people with the absurdity of their conventional way of thinking. His satires range widely over such subjects as heroism in war, physicians and their power over life and death, religion, the battle of the sexes, education, and heaven and hell. The prefaces to many of his plays, besides being examples of a wonderful prose style, are often funnier than the plays themselves. Among the plays to be read in the course: Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, Androcles and the Lion, Saint Joan, and Man and Superman.