Conclusion

Abstract

It is fair to describe Bernard Shaw as a didactic writer, not only in the broad sense that he constantly promoted a moral vision but also in the more specific sense that he sought by his writing to change our minds and therefore our conduct concerning both our private and public lives. Indeed, the very distinction between private and public, between personal and political, is one that the whole drift of his work seeks to break down. Essentially his vision internalises the premises of Socialism, exposing with wit and eloquence the ‘hopelessly private’ person’s neglect of a communal imperative, of the necessary drama of unselfing.