Sign Up

Continue with Facebook
Continue with Google
Continue with Twitter
or use


Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Continue with Facebook
Continue with Google
Continue with Twitter
or use


Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sorry, you do not have a permission to ask a question, You must login to ask question.

Continue with Facebook
Continue with Google
Continue with Twitter
or use


Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here
English Notes Logo English Notes Logo
Sign InSign Up

English Notes

English Notes Navigation

  • Home
  • Spaces
  • Topics
  • Tools
    • Grammar Checker
    • Readability Checker
    • Word Counter
    • Syllable Counter
    • Rhyming Words
  • Dictionaries
    • Encyclopedia
    • English-English
    • English-Hindi
    • Antonyms & Synonyms
    • Wiki Dictionary
    • Misused Words
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Spaces
  • Topics
  • Tools
    • Grammar Checker
    • Readability Checker
    • Word Counter
    • Syllable Counter
    • Rhyming Words
  • Dictionaries
    • Encyclopedia
    • English-English
    • English-Hindi
    • Antonyms & Synonyms
    • Wiki Dictionary
    • Misused Words

Join English Notes today!

Ask questions, share your knowledge and connect with the English Community!

Create A New Account
In: Drama

Explain Candida as a Problem Play

Explain Candida as a Problem Play
CandidaGB Shaw
  • 1
  • 1,629
  • 0
Answer

    1 Answer

    1. Lucifer

      Lucifer

      • better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven
      • 518 Questions
      • 759 Answers
      • 133 Best Answers
      View Profile
      Best Answer
      Lucifer better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven
      2019-07-26T23:36:00+05:30Added an answer on July 26, 2019 at 11:36 pm

      Problem play is a genre of drama which takes up important social issues by using arguments among the characters in the play on the stage. These characters express clashing ideas that help the audience and the readers to understand the issue and reach a solution on their own.

      It must be noted that in a problem play, the playwright never gives a solution. It is left to the audience to understand the situations and bring out a solution.

      Candida by GB Shaw is a Domestic Play. The playwright takes up an issue which is prevalent in society but not discussed. It is the Woman’s Question.

      The protagonist Candida is the wife of James Morell, a famous clergyman who delivers the sermons of morality to the people. He believes that he is an ideal husband and treats his wife well and she cannot live without him.

      However, ironically Morell himself is dependent on Candida and cannot live without her. It is Candida who takes care of all his needs and even the household things. In the play, Candida is not portrayed as a helpless or a traditional “distressed damsel” but as a new woman.

      She is wiser than her husband. She knows all the weaknesses of her husband still pretends to be dependent on him. Her husband who with the intervention of Eugene Marchbanks, comes to know about his love for her, starts fearing of losing her. Being insecure and helpless, he gives choice to Candida to either live with him to go with Eugene.

      Candida being an understanding woman decides to live with him. Hence though Morell is incapable of being her husband and she secretly loves Eugene, she has to live with her husband. Thus this is not a solution. It is left to the audience to decide what would she have done and what it would have resulted.

      Read the summary of Candida here.

      • 1
      • Reply

    Leave an answer
    Cancel reply

    You must login to add an answer.

    Continue with Facebook
    Continue with Google
    Continue with Twitter
    or use


    Forgot Password?

    Continue with Facebook
    Continue with Google
    Continue with Twitter
    Download English Notes App for Android and get answers instantly!

    Sidebar

    Related Questions

    • Explain Condition of Victorian Women in the Play “Candida” by George Bernard Shaw
    • Explain auction scene in candida
    • Explain Candida as a Domestic Play
    • Candida Character Analysis
    • Note on the concept of emergence of new women in candida
    • Explain Pygmalion as a Problem Play
    • Comment on the characterisation of Macbeth as a typical Shakespearean Tragic Hero
    • What does the banquet symbolise in The Tempest?
    • Explain As You Like It as a pastoral romance
    • What are the “seven deadly sins” in Doctor Faustus?
    • What is the reaction of Macbeth before King Duncan’s murder?
    • Explain Shylock as a character of religious persecution in The Merchant of Venice
    • What is the significance of the opening scene of the play “Macbeth”?
    • What contributions did the 18th century English theatre made to modern comedy?
    • Write a note on the development of drama in English literature
    • Discuss the summary of a tale of two cities
    • Write a short summary of the comedy She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
    • Why is the manner of macduff’s birth important in Macbeth?
    • Is Lady Macbeth a tragic hero?
    • How does Macbeth plan for Banquo’s demise?

    Footer

    Educational Tools

    • Grammar Checker
    • Readability Checker
    • Rhyming Words
    • Word Counter
    • Syllable Counter

    Dictionaries

    • Encyclopedia
    • Antonyms & Synonyms Dictionary
    • English-English Dictionary
    • English-Hindi Dictionary
    • Misused Phrases
    • Wiki Dictionary

    Footer 1

    Have you read these?

    © 2020 English Notes. All rights reserved.
    About · Advertise · Contact · Free Tools · Privacy · Terms · Sitemap

    Add English Notes to your Homescreen!

    Add

    Insert/edit link

    Enter the destination URL

    Or link to existing content

      No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.