Sexism or Gender Differentiation and Class Differentiation in George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man

Fatemeh Azizmohammadi; Zohreh Tayari

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Sexism or Gender Differentiation and Class Differentiation in George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man

Fatemeh Azizmohammadi, Zohreh Tayari

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 1)

Received: 19 November 2013 Published: 30 January 2014

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Before surveying the gender differentiation and class discrimination in Arms and the Man, it will be useful to know something about the Victorian period in England, in which the play was written by George Bernard Shaw. In this period, people live in harsh condition and modernism arrived in England. Working classes tried to develop their social class and condition, but the outstanding idea of that time was: each person who was born in social class can’t change his or her class. There were many differences between high and low class of society. For example, the theater was only belonged to the educated people and common people were not allowed to go to the theater or a person from low class can’t marry to one from high class. Here George Bernard Shaw as an active member of Fabian society, destroys all of these convictions and insists on the equality of people’s income and right especially equality of man and woman in society. The aim of this paper is to study class and gender differentiation in George Bernard Shaw’s play, Arms and the man and find the disadvantages of these differences in society.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20140201.12
Page(s)	6-9
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Class Differentiation, Gender Differentiation, George Bernard Shaw, Drama

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Fatemeh Azizmohammadi, Zohreh Tayari. Sexism or Gender Differentiation and Class Differentiation in George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man. Int J Lit Arts. 2014;2(1):6-9. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20140201.12

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Fatemeh Azizmohammadi

Department of English Teaching, Science and research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
Zohreh Tayari

Department of English Literature, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

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Fatemeh Azizmohammadi; Zohreh Tayari. Sexism or Gender Differentiation and Class Differentiation in George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man. Int. J. Lit. Arts 2014, 2(1), 6-9. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20140201.12

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Fatemeh Azizmohammadi, Zohreh Tayari. Sexism or Gender Differentiation and Class Differentiation in George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man. Int J Lit Arts. 2014;2(1):6-9. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20140201.12

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