CONCEPTS AND IDEAS OPPOSED BY BERNARD SHAW IN HIS MAJOR BARBARA

• Main Author: MARIA NATALIA WIJAYA
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Language: English; English; English; English; English; English; English; English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: P Language and Literature; PE1-3729 English
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/129257/1/1.%20HALAMAN%20JUDUL%20.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/129257/2/2.%20DAFTAR%20ISI.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/129257/6/3.%20ABSTRAK.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/129257/3/4.%20BAB%20I%20PENDAHULUAN%20.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/129257/4/5.%20BAB%20II%20.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/129257/8/6.%20BAB%20III.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/129257/5/7.%20KESIMPULAN.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/129257/7/8.%20DAFTAR%20PUSTAKA.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/129257/; http://www.lib.unair.ac.id
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

This thesis is dealing with George Bernard Shaw's idea in opposing some concepts of christianity and capitalism as revealed in the theme of his satirioal comedy play Major Barbara. poverty become the central object in this play. Shaw regards it as the worst of crimes. It must be eliminated if we want to make the world a better place to live in. One way to abolish poverty is through the salvation. According to Shaw, in doing the salvation, one cannot jump into saving the soul, but at firs the must save the basic needs of human beings and then, after free from poverty, he has to contribute some thing to human progress - that is what Shaw meant by Salvation.