Exp. These lines, spoken by Valentine to Gloria, have been extracted from Act II of the play You Never can Tell written by George Bernard Shaw. Here Valentine gives a humorous explanation of the strange sensation that crosses the minds of men and women when they are in love.
Valentine and Gloria are drawn to each other by the influence of the life force. Being a rationalist, Gloria wants a scientific explanation of this felling, Valentine says that this feeling is the working of Nature. It is Nature which works through the hearts of men and women who are nothing but toys in the hands of Nature. Gloria is unwilling to term the working of life force as ‘love’. To her ‘love’ is a vulgar word for this sensation is something more than ‘love’. He describes it in terms of chemistry – the new science of the day. In chemistry, we hear of chemical combination, chemical action, chemical affinity etc. He tells her that chemical laws work in the relation of men and women. Just as elements combine together and make new compounds, so men and women combine to procreate children. Men and women are drawn to each other by the irresistible chemical forces.
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
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