Man and Superman
Characters of the play:-
Important Quotes:-
"You know that I am not a prejudiced and bigoted man... I have always stood for equality and free conscience while they were truckling to the churches and to the aristocracy."
(act- 01, by Roubuck Ramsden)
"She'll commit every crime a respectable woman can; she'll justify every one of them by saying they it was the wish of her guardians,. She'll put everything on us; and we shall have no control over her than a couple of mice over a cat."
(act-01, by Tanner, reveals Ann's character.)
"Ann will do just exactly what she likes. And what is more, she will force us to advise her to do it, and she will put the blame on us if ti turns out badly."
(act-01, by Tanner, about Ann's character)
"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our income, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just we are as ashamed of our naked skins."
(act-01, by Tanner, sarcastic comment on English society)
"You are ashamed to buy my book, ashamed to read it: the only thing you are not ashamed of is to judge me for it without having read it."
act-01, by Tanner, about Ramsden's character)
"It was the creative instinct that led you to attach me to you by bonds that have left their mark on me to this day. Yes, Ann: the old childish compact between us was an unconscious love compact."
(act-01, by Tanner, the idea of Life Force)
"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."
(act-02, by Tanner)
"The first duty of manhood and womanhood is a declaration of independence."
(act-02, by Tanner)
"You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money."
(act-02, by Violet)
"I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor."
(act-02, Mendoza)
"I am a gentleman. I live by robbing the poor."
(act-03, by Tanner)
" Her intellect reached forward into the twentieth century: her social prejudices and family affections reached back into the dark ages."
(act-03, by Mendoza, about his beloved Louisa Starker)
"Hell is the home of honour, duty, justice, and the rest of the seven deadly virtues."
(act-03, by Don Juan)
"I am so much more admired in marble than I was..."
(act-03, by The Statue)
"It is true that the world cannot get on without me; but it never gives me credit for that: in its heart it mistrusts and hates me."
(act-03, by The Devil)
"At every one of those concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. There is the same thing in heaven. A number of people sit there in glory, not because they are happy, but because they think they owe it to their position to be in heaven."
(act-03, by The Statue)
"Men thrive better on disappointments in love than on disappointments in money."
(act-04, by Malone)
"I want no middle-class properties and no middle-class women for Hector."
(act-04, by Malone)
"Domestic pressure may be slow; but it's sure."
(act-04, by Malone)
"Sir: there are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."
(act-04, by Mendoza)
In the third act of the play when the hell scene is presented, the name of the following changes-
Jack Tanner - Don Juan.
Mendoza - The Devil.
The Statue - Ann's Father (Mr. Whitefield) who has died.
Ana - Ann Whitefield.
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