The Idea of love, marriage and war are the recurring themes of “Arms and the Man”, a fantastic romantic comedyby George Bernard Shaw, a great modern playwright. Shaw has shown that it is the romance of war that leads to the romance of love. He satirizes idealized notions of love and war in the comedy. The play opens with highly romantic views of love and war of Raina. She standing on the balcony of her bedroom, admiring the beauty of the night dreams of her fiancée, Sergius. Soon she learns that ignoring the orders of his Russian commander, he made a heroic charge on the artillery of the Serbs and put them to flight. Raina, in ecstasy, raptures kisses on the photo of her lover and her knight. She feels that she has been a ‘prosaic little coward’ in her doubts about Sergius’ heroism and is unworthy of him. Sergius’ heroism in war feeds her romantic love of him. Raina’s heroic ideals of war receives a violent shakewhen she is told the truth about Sergius’ cavalry charge. I
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