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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Relevant as ever!,
By Rosie (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Getting Married (Kindle Edition)
I was shocked when I realized this play was written in 1908. What a progressive and open mind! Extremely enjoyable and wickedly honest. I would give it more stars if possible...absolutely wonderful read!!!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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A good satire on engagements, marriages, and divorces,
By Israel Drazin (Boca Raton, Florida) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Getting Married (Paperback)
Two themes drive this 1908 witty drama by one of England's top playwrights as he discusses and makes fun of engagements, marriages, and divorces. The first theme is the educational insufficiency and snobbery of the English, a persistent Shaw theme. One only needs to think of the well-known apt description of the English by another author: only wild dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon-day sun. And one only needs to be reminded of how the English treated the "colonies" in a thoughtless self-interested manner. The second theme is the foolishness associated with relationships and marriages, especially the inability of most people to grow, mature, and sustain a relationship that by nature changes as people become older, and the civil and religious laws associated with marriage. Who, for example, would want a spouse for both "better and for worse"?
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Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw. Published by MobileReference (mobi).
Getting Married satirizes the status of marriage in Shaw's days. Very good ebook.
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But the actual result is that when two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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Indissoluble marriage is an academic figment, advocated only by celibates and by comfortably married people who imagine that if other couples are uncomfortable it must be their own fault, just as rich people are apt to imagine that if other people are poor it serves them right.
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