Topic > Mrs. Warren's Profession - 804

Mr. Warren's Profession is just one of three plays in George Bernard Shaw's collection, aptly titled “Plays Unpleasant,” each of which Shaw says 'forces the spectator to face unpleasant facts.' Shaw had an idea: to highlight and challenge the role of women within society. Ms. Warren's profession takes a critical look at the male double standard within society and how women are objectified. Victorian society created a rippling pattern in which the roles of women and men were clearly delineated. The microcosm existing in the work reveals in an exaggerated way the true extent of male domination within society, which was on the brink of change. The male elite attempted to suppress these changes and one of these that directly conflicted with the opera was the Lord Chamberlain's decision to ban the opera on the basis of its frank discussion and depiction of prostitution. Shaw has carefully created each character within the play, so that each offers a representation of the changes he feels are relevant. Shaw stated that no respectable woman who could earn a living wage would become a prostitute and no woman would marry for money if she could marry. for love. Ms. Warren embodies this very idea: Why wouldn't I do it? The house in Brussels was really high class; a much better place for a woman to be than the factory where Anne Jane was poisoned. None of our girls were ever treated as I was treated in the scullery of that temperance house, or in the Waterloo bar, or at home. Would you have left me there and become a worn-out old worker before I was forty? Shaw manages to recognize the importance of the female role model within the play. The four male characters within the play simply seem to satellite around... the center of the card... derogatory evil act, but Croft realized the earning potential and thanks to Kitty Warren's experience and her business acumen his fortune increased. Reverend Samuel Gardner has very little respect for his son, whose mother is believed to be Kitty Warren. The Reverend is ashamed of his past and even attempts to destroy it, acquiring a series of letters he once wrote to Kitty. Shaw's attempt to realign the social dichotomy seems to be a faithful representation of the monster of Marry Shelley, his new woman, in fact. not one who relies on her independence and uses feminine qualities to assert herself as an equal, but one who imitates the qualities of the man she is rebelling against. Shaw however managed to highlight that prostitution is not at all a preferred option for women and only due to circumstances and survival is this option considered..