Raina gives her chocolate creams and criticizes him for keeping chocolates in his pockets instead of ammunition. Raina lets her hide in her room and gets surprised when she sees that he was not glorying war rather he was happy because he has escaped the battlefield alive. The man is a Swiss and an escaped Serbian officer. In the night, a man named Bluntschli, enters her room through the unlocked window and warns her that he will kill her if she makes any noise. Raina does not pay any heed to her words and chooses to keep her window unlocked. Meanwhile, Louka, their servant, enters the room and warns them to keep the windows and doors locked because escaped Serbian soldiers are seeking refuge in the houses of Bulgarians. Catherine adds that Sergius, Raina’s fiancé whom she idealizes as a hero, has appeared as a brave hero in the war and was at the head of the charge. Raina, a rich Bulgarian woman, receives good news from her mother, Catherine, that Bulgarian forces have won the battle against Serbs. The play is set in Bulgaria in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw Summary So the title should be looked at ironically as the play is a satire on foolishness of glorifying something as terrible as war. The title of the play comes from the opening words of Virgil’s Aeneid, the Roman epic which glorifies war and heroic deeds of those who participate in war. It is also a satire on romantic and unrealistic notions of love. It is a humorous play and a social satire that presents a realistic account of war and shows how foolish it is to idealize war as something noble. This play was produced on April 21st, 1894 and was first published in 1898 in Shaw’s collection of plays: “Pleasant and Unpleasant” Volume. Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw SummaryĪrms and the Man is a famous comedy written by George Bernard Shaw.