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3. Bernard Shaw’s view on war “The outbreak of war in 1914 changed Shaw's life. For Shaw, the war represented the bankruptcy of the capitalist system, the last desperate gasps of the nineteenth-century empires, and a tragic waste of young lives, all under the guise of patriotism. He expressed his opinions in a series of newspaper articles under the title Common Sense About the War. These articles proved to be a disaster for Shaw's public stature: he was treated as an outcast in his adopted country, and there was even talk of his being tried for treason. His dramatic output ground to a halt, and he succeeded in writing only one major play during the war years, Heartbreak House, into which he projected his bitterness and despair about British politics and society.” from Bernard Shaw: a Brief Biography by Cary M. Mazer, University of Pennsylvania Source: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cmazer/mis1.html

4. Socialism and Bernard Shaw “Shaw asserted each social class strove to serve its own ends with the upper and middle classes winners in the struggle and the working class the loser. He excoriated the democratic system of his time, saying workers, ruthlessly exploited by greedy employers, lived in abject poverty and were too ignorant and apathetic to vote intelligently. He believed this deficiency would ultimately be corrected by the emergence of long-lived supermen with experience and intelligence enough to govern properly. He called the developmental process elective breeding but it is sometimes referred to as shavian eugenics, largely because he thought it was driven by a "Life Force" that led women—subconsciously to select the mates most likely to give them superior children.” Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

5. Introduction: Fugard, women, and politics - Athol Fugard Issue Source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n4_v39/ai_16087640/pg_1