Man and Superman (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Play of ideas
- Time of Work: c. 1900
- Setting: England and Spain
- Genres: Drama, Problem play, Comedy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Dreams, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Women, Ethics, Human behavior, Spain or Spanish people, Intellect, Anarchism or anarchists
- Locales: London, England, Richmond, England, Granada, Spain
Characters Discussed
Ann Whitefield, a good-looking and vital young woman. At the urging of the Life Force, which is striving toward the eventual creation of the Superman, she is a liar, a coquette, a bully, and a hypocrite. She is also charming enough to get away with it all. Her flagrant violations of the romantic idea of the woman’s role in courtship enable her to entrap Jack Tanner.
John (Jack) Tanner, a big, bearded, and wealthy young man with an Olympian manner but a saving sense of humor. Tanner is the dramatically unconventional author of The...
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