Whenever I think of parody...obviously a particular person come before me just a fraction of seconds...
Well...Let me tell...
William Shakespeare- The master of English language impresses each and every English lover with his artistic styles and sonnets. He makes the people to feel as they are in the story as a character. If he writes a Emotional drama, he makes us cry. If he writes a Romantic drama, he makes us to love.If he writes a Political drama, he makes it interesting and he crowns us like a king.
Such a versatile writer Shakespeare is!!!!!!!
He writes so many plays & dramas. Many English lovers criticize him, becauseof he didn't make a revolution in English literature&Language.
But I am impressed with him because of the presenting skills of the person..
Yes..... It is none other than George Bernard Shaw...
The Irish writes the Shakespeare's dramas in a different way. He is the master of writing spoofs and parody.The imagination skills of Bernard Shaw is incredible.
We can easily enjoy this with in the story of Julius Caesar.
Shakespeare,who is the original author talks about the love of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. He emphasized only on the beauty of Cleopatra. Nothing more importance was giving to the character.
The story ends with the death of Mark Antony and Cleopatra also sacrifices her life for her beloved.
Shakespeare just made Cleopatra as the symbol of beauty only.
Now The BERNARD SHAW Version.................
The follower of Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw describes almost the same theme. Here comes the imagination of Bernard Shaw which takes the superior authority. He talks about the love of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra(This is only imagination).The story begins with Julius Caesar mesmerized with the beauty of Cleopatra who stands in front of the (Ra)-Cupid Statue in the river banks of the Nile River.(Still...I am astonished to imagine the beauty of Cleopatra and narration of shaw's)
The Description of this scene is one of the best in the history of English literature writing.
He made the character of Cleopatra,not only for beauty,but also it symbolizes courage,feminine behavior,innocence.
Look this opening & meeting scene of Caesar and Cleopatra...
The conversation between both of them...shows some intimacy and courageous and a kind of caring.....so so....Narration is full of wit and sarcasm ...
| CAESAR |
[amazed].
Who are you? |
| THE GIRL | Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt |
| CAESAR | Queen of the Gypsies, you mean. |
| CLEOPATRA | You must not be disrespectful to me, or the Sphinx will let the Romans eat you. Come up. It is quite cosy here. |
| CAESAR |
[to himself].
What a dream!. What a magnificent dream! Only let me not wake, and I will conquer ten continents to pay for dreaming it out to the end
[He climbs to the Sphinx's flank, and presently reappears to her on the pedestal, stepping round its right shoulder.]
|
| CLEOPATRA | Take care. That's right. Now sit down: you may have its other paw.
[She seats herself comfortably on its left paw.]
It is very powerful and will protect us; but
[shivering, and with plaintive loneliness]
it would not take any notice of me or keep me company. I am glad you have come: I was very lonely. Did you happen to see a white cat anywhere? |
| CAESAR |
[sitting slowly down on the right paw in extreme wonderment].
Have you lost one? |
| CLEOPATRA | Yes: the sacred white cat: is it not dreadful? I brought him here to sacrifice him to the Sphinx; but when we got a little way from the city a black cat called him, and he jumped out of my arms and ran away to it. Do you think that the black cat can have been my great-great-great-grandmother? This is what Bernard Shaw is!!!! |
The Bernard Shaw version of the story makes it interesting and makes the characters in the story strong..
The Shakespeare makes some characters more fragile. But Bernard Shaw is contradicted to this..
Bernard Shaw da!!!!!!!
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