Analysis of the text The Man of Destiny

Bernard Shaw was the British writer, novelist, playwriter, Nobel

laureate in literature, social worker. He was the second (after
Shakespeare) the most popular playwriter in the English theatre.
Genre variety in line with its wide emotional spectrum from
sarcasm to the elegiac meditation on the fate of people who are
the victims of ugly public establishment. At the heart of the
artistic method a paradox as a means of over throwing the
dogmatism and prejudice.
The problem is how man can conceal his essence.
The main idea is human nature
The plot of the story centers round Napoleon Bonaparte. He
arrested the lieutenant who must brought dispatches but it was
stolen by Lady. When Lady came he demanded his dispatches.
But there was private letter of his wife and this lady knew her and
must take away this letter, but Napoleon caught them with the
power. Lady began to prompt him that this private letter belonged
to his wife where she wrote to his friend Barras. Napoleon knew it
but he didnt want to give out that he knew it, because only his
wife helped him with friendship with Barras. And this Lady shows
that Napoleon has lost his honor by his actions.
The story is written in a 3rd person narration. The story interlaced
with dialogues of the characters and in intervals of these
dialogues we can see the remarks which show characters
emotions. Remarks are the main feature of B. Shaw. An account of
events interwoven with description of Napoleons character, his
relations with his wife and the others people.
The prevailing mood is emotional, because the author use the
remarks in which he describes emotions, also it may be dramatic
This text can be divided into 5 logically complete parts:
First part starts with A little inn in North Italy and ends with
Come, lieutenant. It can be entitle as Lieutenants attempts
to disrobe Lady

Second part starts with How can I thank you and ends with
with as little ceremony as I took the handkerchief. It can be
entitle as Napoleons anger and persistence
Third part starts with General: do you threaten women? and
ends with You see I shew my confidence in you and can be
entitle as Napoleon show his compassion
Forth part starts with This in cautious echo of the lieutenant
undoes her and ends with The moment he takes them, she
hurries across and can be entitle as The sharp changing
compassion in anger
Fifth part starts with (gloating over the papers):Aha!Thats
right and ends with (She goes indignantly towards the inner
door) and can be entitle as The lost of honor
In this text B.Shaw use paradox, because we wait one but he
overturns the events in unexpected way. Also we can see that he
use a lot of repetitions (Tut!Tut!,Pray!Pray!);epithets (coldly,
graceful, radiant); allusion (Dalila!Dalila;Caesars wife is above
suspicion);anaphora (So Ive got you.So Ive disguised, You can
fight You are not afraid. You teach us); detachment (Im going
to see you lose your honor and your happiness).
In this text we see the use of colloquial speech, because of many
dialogues. A lot of incomplete, elliptical sentences (General-,
Good, Nothing), contracted forms (Ive, Im, Ill). These
peculiarities show us that this text is play.