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| '''Characters:''' | |||
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| Caesar | |||
| Mama | |||
| Lorena | |||
| Corona | |||
| Crassus | |||
| '''Story Line''' | |||
| {{Wikisource|Androcles and the Lion}} | |||
| Caesar, the emperor of Rome (and also a slutty woman-whore), has many untold secrets. One of them being that he had an affair with a woman that people nicknamed, "Mama". After knowing that Mama was pregnant, she fled the country and moved to Thrace. There she gave birth to her first daughter, Lorena. | |||
| {{Wikisource|Preface to Androcles and the Lion}} | |||
| Meanwhile, Caesar continued ruling as, in his terms, normally. He had a very strange romantic life, recycling through women (and ocassionally men) every few days. One of those men was his right-hand man, Crassus, who served his job as well as Caesar's best friend. But after what seemed like centuries of endless ruling, Caesar wanted to do something more with his life. He decided that he wanted to open his own stip club. He gave it the bland name, "Caesar's" and ended up "performing" there quite often. | |||
| '''''Androcles and the Lion''''' is a 1912 ] written by ]. | |||
| But while all this was occurring, Caesar's forgotten daughter was as very successful rushes vendor, and sold them daily at Rome's market place. Lorena had never known that Caesar was her father, nor was told that her father was someone else, all she knew was that her father had been completely removed from her life. Although many had commented about Lorena having very strange similarities to the emperor, she had never thought anything more of it than something ironic. But after a very long string of events, Lorena and her slave, Corena, ended up in Caesar's federal court. While being tried, Caesar instantly felt a strange connection with Lorena, and had also noticed their strange similarities. So after hearing that Lorena never knew her father, Caesar instantly knew that that young lady was his long lost daughter. | |||
| Caesar was over-joyed with this news, and instantly welcomed Lorena into his kingdom and fortune. But after discovering the strange, play-boy character of her father, Lorena decided to flee the country with Corona. And after a very drowned-out period of "convincing" done to Crassus by Mama, Crassus decided to help the women with their evil plan; they were going to kill Caesar. | |||
| ''Androcles and the Lion'' is Shaw's retelling of the tale of ], a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the ] for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values. | |||
| After the next few months, their plan was put into action--Lorena and Corona ruled Rome, later ruling the entire world, and everyone lived disturbingly ever after. | |||
| The short play is often printed with a ] that includes a long examination of the ] by Shaw, in which Shaw analyzes the Bible and proclaims his findings. In summary, Shaw states that ] was a benevolent genius (in areas ranging from moral to social to economical) who eventually bought into popular ideas of his divinity and impending martyrdom. Shaw goes on to state that the teachings of Jesus were lost with his ], and that following churches actually worship Paul or ]. The preface is longer than the play itself. | |||
| The play was written at a time when the Christian Church was an important influence on society and there was strong pressure on non-believers in public life. The reverse of roles in the play possibly served to evoke empathy from his targeted audience. The characters also represent different "types" of Christian believers. The journey and final outcome of each of the characters make it clear which believers Shaw sympathizes with the most, especially with Lavinia. One of the most famous passages of the play is Lavinia's metaphor of capturing a mouse to converting from Christianity to believing in the Roman gods, where Lavinia shows that the most important part of religion is earnestness and a lack of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy was a characteristic in the Church that Shaw condemned. | |||
| The play has themes of ] and persecution which are portrayed through the vehicle of ]. Another point in the play is his position against ], which connected to his philosophy in being a ]. In the play, Shaw uses slapstick humour, verbal wit and physical humour to portray his themes. | |||
| A version was published using the ] (1962 Penguin Books, London). | |||
| A film version, '']'' was made of the play in 1952, produced by ]. | |||
| {{George Bernard Shaw}} | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
Revision as of 05:31, 23 May 2009
Characters: Caesar Mama Lorena Corona Crassus
Story Line Caesar, the emperor of Rome (and also a slutty woman-whore), has many untold secrets. One of them being that he had an affair with a woman that people nicknamed, "Mama". After knowing that Mama was pregnant, she fled the country and moved to Thrace. There she gave birth to her first daughter, Lorena. Meanwhile, Caesar continued ruling as, in his terms, normally. He had a very strange romantic life, recycling through women (and ocassionally men) every few days. One of those men was his right-hand man, Crassus, who served his job as well as Caesar's best friend. But after what seemed like centuries of endless ruling, Caesar wanted to do something more with his life. He decided that he wanted to open his own stip club. He gave it the bland name, "Caesar's" and ended up "performing" there quite often. But while all this was occurring, Caesar's forgotten daughter was as very successful rushes vendor, and sold them daily at Rome's market place. Lorena had never known that Caesar was her father, nor was told that her father was someone else, all she knew was that her father had been completely removed from her life. Although many had commented about Lorena having very strange similarities to the emperor, she had never thought anything more of it than something ironic. But after a very long string of events, Lorena and her slave, Corena, ended up in Caesar's federal court. While being tried, Caesar instantly felt a strange connection with Lorena, and had also noticed their strange similarities. So after hearing that Lorena never knew her father, Caesar instantly knew that that young lady was his long lost daughter. Caesar was over-joyed with this news, and instantly welcomed Lorena into his kingdom and fortune. But after discovering the strange, play-boy character of her father, Lorena decided to flee the country with Corona. And after a very drowned-out period of "convincing" done to Crassus by Mama, Crassus decided to help the women with their evil plan; they were going to kill Caesar. After the next few months, their plan was put into action--Lorena and Corona ruled Rome, later ruling the entire world, and everyone lived disturbingly ever after.