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        <title><![CDATA[Louka is designened as a foil to Raina .Examine the statement with...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/louka-designened-foil-raina-examine-statement-with-122543</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Louka is designened as a foil to Raina .Examine the statement with reference to the two women's attitude to love in G.B.Shaw's Arms and the Man.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:02:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[discuss "arms and the man" as dramatic satire.]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/discuss-arms-man-dramatic-satire-121555</link>
        <description><![CDATA[discuss "arms and the man" as dramatic satire.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 05:43:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what are the concequences of the war between the bulgarians and the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/what-concequences-war-between-bulgarians-russians-121385</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what are the concequences of the war between the bulgarians and the russians in "Arms and the Man" by bernard shaw ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:20:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The question is a bit vague, but immediately I can say these are the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/what-consequences-war-arms-man-121379</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The question is a bit vague, but immediately I can say these are the opening words in Vergil's Aeneid. The Latin is as follows:
Arma virumque cano... I sing of arms and the man.
These words are also an important allusion to Homer, the great Greek writer of epic. Homer wrote two works, one concerning "arms" and the other concerning "a man." The Iliad is about the great battle of arms and the Odyssey is about the great story of a man's...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:11:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the consequences of the war in "Arms and the Man"?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/what-consequences-war-arms-man-121379</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What are the consequences of the war in "Arms and the Man"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:53:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Was Shaw at all clear on the theme of war?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/was-shaw-all-clear-theme-war-119149</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Was Shaw at all clear on the theme of war?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:46:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The professional soldier and Shavian mouth-piece, Bluntschli made this...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/there-shall-no-mistake-about-cartridges-this-time-118003</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The professional soldier and Shavian mouth-piece, Bluntschli made this remark to Sergius Saranoff, who had fantastically won the battle of Slivnitza by fighting in the most unprofessional way. Sergius led a cavalry charge against the Serbian artillery. Bluntschli who was in the Serbian artilley saw how Sergius and his cavalry brigade came charging like Don Quixote and his associates. As the artilley-men were about to fire, they found that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:07:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw, Sergius only survives...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw, Sergius only survives because of his army’s mistake - the quartermaster gets the ammo wrong. Bluntschli sends the gunners the wrong ammunition so they weren't effective against the Bulgarians when they attacked their cavalry against all the odds and military codes.
He has a strange outlook on things including war for example carrying chocolate candy instead of cartridges in his belt as he thinks...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:27:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ "And there shall be no mistake about the cartridges this time."  What...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ "And there shall be no mistake about the cartridges this time."  What does its mean in Arms and the Man?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:46:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[differences between nicola and louka]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/differences-between-nicola-louka-112833</link>
        <description><![CDATA[differences between nicola and louka]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:57:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At what point in the act does Raina feeling towards the soldier change?...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/what-point-act-does-raina-feeling-towards-soldier-111751</link>
        <description><![CDATA[At what point in the act does Raina feeling towards the soldier change? why do they change?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 01:41:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does crtics call 'Arms and the Man' as  discussion play?It is its...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/why-does-crtics-call-arms-man-discussion-play-its-106893</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why does crtics call 'Arms and the Man' as  discussion play?It is its real objective?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:08:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Byronism is seen in the character of Major Saranoff, who is a shining...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/what-byronism-arms-man-45609</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Byronism is seen in the character of Major Saranoff, who is a shining example of Raina and her mother’s romanticized image of a hero.  Sergius is often referred to as the Byronic hero or as the Hamlet of this play because he has an underlying despair about life. He clings to his idealized image of himself because he is afraid to find out who he really is. He knows that he is a different person with Raina than he is with Louka, and Louka...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:52:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can anyone plz suggest 2-3 good books for the reference work of Arms...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/can-anyone-plz-suggest-2-3-good-books-reference-104275</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Can anyone plz suggest 2-3 good books for the reference work of Arms and the Man?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:30:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The fugitive soldier of the defeated Serbian artillery, Bluntschli, who...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/why-was-sergius-called-don-quixote-by-fugitive-103771</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The fugitive soldier of the defeated Serbian artillery, Bluntschli, who took shelter in Raina's bed-chamber, called the victorious Bulgarian war-hero, Sergius Saranoff, 'a Don Quixote charging at the wind-mills'. It was intended to undercut Sergius's victory at the battle of Slivnitza and to mock at Sergius's absurdly ludicrous act of heroism in battle. Sergius simply fought the battle in a wrong way and still managed to win it.
Don Quixote,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:58:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why was Sergius called Don Quixote by the fugitive in Arms and the Man?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/why-was-sergius-called-don-quixote-by-fugitive-103771</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why was Sergius called Don Quixote by the fugitive in Arms and the Man?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:29:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Arms and the Man does have political implications and, for that matter,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/discuss-political-implecations-play-86415</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Arms and the Man does have political implications and, for that matter, none of Shaw's plays is purely aesthetic or apolitical.
a) it is essentially an anti-war play, a witty indictment of the politics of war and imperialism;
b) it is also an anti-climactic exposure of patriotism and nationalism; as an iconoclast, Shaw demolishes  such icons as Sergius Saranoff and the Petkoffs;
c) the play offers a contrasted pair of servants in Nicola and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:17:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Raina Petkoff, the fashionable wax-doll daughter of Major Petkoff, was...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/explain-raina-bluntschli-relation-68919</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Raina Petkoff, the fashionable wax-doll daughter of Major Petkoff, was betrothed to the hypocritically romantic Sergius Saranoff. But on the night of gun-battle, the Serbian Major, Bluntschli, entered secretly into Raina's bed-chamber to shock and disillusion her in matters of heroism in war and love. Bluntschli, a professional soldier, deliberately and with all the verbal weapons of wit and sarcasm, demolishes Raina's false impressions of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:36:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss Arms and the Man as an anti-romantic comedy.]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/discuss-arms-man-an-anti-romantic-comedy-99067</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Discuss Arms and the Man as an anti-romantic comedy.]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/arms-man/q-and-a/discuss-arms-man-an-anti-romantic-comedy-99067</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:05:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The title is an allusion to the first line of Vergil's Aeneid. In...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The title is an allusion to the first line of Vergil's Aeneid. In English, the line translates as "I sing of arms and the man." In Vergil, "the man" is, of course, Aeneas, and "arms" refers to the Trojan War &amp; Aeneas' journey from Greece.
Because Shaw's play is a satire, the title should be looked at ironically. Rather than praising "arms" &amp; the men who use them, Shaw is dissecting the reality of war, showing the futile nature of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:44:06 PST</pubDate>
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