Biography - George Bernard Shaw

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         On July 26, 1856, Shaw was born in Dublin. His family had come from the upper class, but they were now poor. He may have been interested in poverty and other social issues for the rest of his life because of this. In the end, he moved to London in 1876 and became a member of the Fabian Society, a group of intellectual socialists. 

         He wrote and spoke for the Fabian Society about many important issues of the time. Most of his creative works, like his five failed novels and many successful plays, dealt with issues like slumlords, prostitution, and women's rights in a humorous way. In general, his plays are clever and contradictory discussions of ideas. In some ways, they are just an extension of the political debates he liked to have in the different debating societies he was a part of. 

        Shaw was known as an irreverent sceptic his whole life, and he didn't believe in any traditional religion. But the writings of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen influenced him to come up with a theory about what he called the Life Force, which is an irrational force at work in the universe that guides social evolution by getting into the minds of some superior people. Shaw was a socialist, but he also thought that geniuses were very important. He had a low opinion of the average person and didn't trust democracy, especially after he saw how the public felt about Germany during World War I. In fact, Shaw grew to like dictatorships like the Soviet Union and Mussolini's Italy in his later years. 

        Shaw was very against war, and when World War I started, he wrote a pamphlet against it that got him a lot of bad press. He also didn't like how the English ruled Ireland and spoke out against putting to death the leaders of the 1916 Irish rebellion against the English. He also defended an Irishman named Roger Casement, who was put to death for treason that same year. 

        Shaw had thought about writing a play about Joan of Arc for a long time. His wife finally convinced him to do it in 1923, three years after Joan was made a saint. The play brought him a great deal of fame and helped him win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. It was also one of his last big works, though he lived for another 27 years and died in Ayot Saint Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, on November 2, 1950, at the age of 94.

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