A person who loses confidence in the world is often born with life values. For those who lose confidence in the world, the most terrible tragedy is the loss of hope and interest in life and everything. I don't want anything. I don't want to do anything.

Full of ambition and too much hope for life, like a newly graduated college student who is bent on starting a business, developing and becoming an elite in society, and finally finds it difficult to become a middle class. The greater the hope, the more disappointed. This often becomes another tragedy in life: you just can't get what you want.

George Bernard Shaw (65438+July 26th, 0856—1950165438+1October 2nd) is an Irish playwright.

1925 Obtaining Nobel Prize in Literature by Idealism and Humanism. He is an outstanding modern realistic playwright in Britain, a world-famous language master who is good at humor and satire, an active social activist and a propagandist of Fabian socialism. He supported women's rights, called for fundamental changes in the electoral system, advocated equal income and advocated the abolition of private property.

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The most prominent ideological feature of Bernard Shaw's plays is that they are closely combined with the real political struggle, dare to touch the most essential problems of capitalist society, and expose the ugly face of the exploiting class to the public. In terms of artistic techniques, he is good at expressing personality conflicts and themes through dialogue between characters and confrontation of thoughts and emotions. Bernard Shaw's dramatic language is sharp and pungent, full of wit, and witticism blurts out.

Bernard Shaw was born in a family of small clerks, and his unfortunate life circumstances prompted him to rush between work and earning a living in his early years, which also made him more truly and comprehensively contact with various groups of all walks of life and provided rich and varied material for his later realistic literary creation.

In a large number of Shaw's plays, the criticism of group image display is clear and firm. He enthusiastically eulogized the noble humanity of simplicity and kindness, and strongly and directly satirized and exposed the ugly and hypocritical inferior humanity.

It widely shows the joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, inner feelings and emotional sustenance of workers, citizens, businessmen, unemployed and other social individuals with different class identities during the period of rapid development of industrial civilization and the era of capitalist monopoly.

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