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Candida by George Bernard Shaw: A Brief Assessment, , •, •, •, •, •, •, , •, •, , •, •, •, , George Bernard Shaw was born on 26th July 1856 in Dublin. He was a man of, great intellectual ability. The play Candida is written by George Bernard Shaw., Candida is the name of the central figure of the play. The word Candida is, derived from the adjective ‘candid’, which means frank and truthful., The major characters of the play are Candida, Reverend James Mavor Morell,, and Eugene Marchbanks., The minor characters of the play are Burgess, Miss Proserpine Garnett, and, Reverend Alexander Mills (Lexy)., Morell is a clergyman. He is Candida’s husband. He believes that he is leading a, perfect married life with his wife., Candida is a self-confident, strong-headed woman. She believes in herself. She, is always guided by her head, not by her heart. She performs her domestic duties, properly., Marchbanks is a poet of great moral and intellectual strength. He enters the, house of Morell and Candida as a guest., He challenges Morell’s belief of a perfect marriage with Candida. He threatens, Morell because he believes that Morell tortures Candida and she is unhappy in, her married life., Shaw in his plays gives a long description of characters and the stage, so that, people can understand the ideas of the writer., Candida is an interesting play with a different twist in a regular story of love and, marriage., The last act of the play is important and leads the play to a new discussion., , Reference reading: Candida: George Bernard Shaw., Professor Matrayi Priyadarshini,, Department of English and Modern European Languages,, University of Lucknow.