Exp These lines, spoken by Mrs. Clandon to Valentine, have been quoted from Act III of the Play You can Never Tell written by George Bernard Shaw. Here Mrs. Clandon expresses her cynical attitude to love.
Mrs. Clandon is a pioneer of Women’s Movement in the Victorian age. She had an unsuitable marriage with Mr. Crampton. Their marriage proved bitterly disappointing because of their lack of mutual understanding. As a result she cultivates cynical attitude to love. Learning from Dolly and Philip that Gloria appears to like Valentine’s kissing on her lips, Mrs. Clandon speaks to him on the subject of love of which she knew little or nothing. She tells him that though she had been a married woman, she had never known love. She had married before she was grown-up enough to know what she was doing. She has never tasted love in her life. Her experience of other woman’s love tells her that it makes woman unhappy. To her love is a strong personal infatuation that vanishes very soon. It is a weakness and sentimentalism. It can be found in the love story that lacks basis in fact, not in actual life. Mrs. Clandon has no weakness for love. Her life is devoted to the cause of humanity. She is a philanthropist. The joys of such life are more than the joys of sentimental lovers. Thus, being deprived of the sweetening influence of love in married life, she had become an atheist of romantic love.
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: III
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