ABSTRACT
Bernard Shaw combines the offices of critic, humorist and visionary. Shaw has his eyes on the real lines of force, involving money: good and evil do not in practice exist apart from their context, and Undershaft, the great industrialist, has the necessary drive and wealth. Shaw's dramatic socialism contains strong aristocratic sympathies. The aristocratic connections of so central and admired a person as Lady Cecily inCaptain Brassbound's Conversion are intrinsic to her dramatic stature. Shaw regularly counterbalances male traditions by forceful women: as bearer of the life-force woman is an almost impersonal power in Man and Superman, and Mrs George in Getting Married is a medium who in trance speaks inspiredly of sexual relations, covering both the female and the male contributions. Integration conditions male leadership.
