Basic Study : MA Final in Seven College Under Dhaka University
Subject Name: Modern Drama (Study Guide)
Subject Code: ENM 504
Written and Edited Credit : Md. Layek Ali
Use : Non-Commercial with free Education Purpose
First Published: February 2022
ISBN: 984-70020-0745-0
Text: You Never Can Tell
Writer: George Bernard Shaw
Text Type: Explanations
Act: II
Exp. These lines, spoken b y Mrs. Clandon to McComas, have been cited from Act II of the play You Never call tell written by George Bernard Shaw. Here Mrs. Clandon tells him about Gloria’s future. Mrs. Clandon is a feminist who took a leading part in the woman’s movement. She claims equality of rights between man and woman, women’s right to vote, to university education, to profession ete. Because of different mentality and taste, she separated from her husband and lived in Madeira, an island in North Atlantic Ocean with her children- Gloria, Dolly and Philip. She educates Gloria on her ideals so that she may take up her work when the mother is gone.
place and is cut off from the tide of European civilization. Mrs. Clandon compares Madeira with St. Helena where Napoleon was imprisoned after his defeat at Waterloo and died in 182 1. Madeira to St. Helena because she lived here the life like Napoleon, from London after her But Madeira is a backward life of an exile, enaration from her husband. so, she returned to England to give Gloria a full education so that she can become an advocate of woman’s right. If they live inN kind of live in Madeira forever, it will be a
Gloria without any chance of blooming. Thus, Mrs. Clandon in these lines states the cause of her coming back to living burial for London.
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