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In the opening scene of arms and the man, which establishes the plays embattled balkan setting, young raina learns of her suitors heroic exploits in combat. Notes on the course in divinity given by mary baker eddy, the discoverer and founder of christian science, and author of its textbook, science and health with key to the scriptures, at her home, pleasant view, concord, new hampshire, during the years nineteen hundred three, nineteen hundred four, and nineteen hundred seven. For example, man at arms skills require strength while pyrokinetic or. The play begins in the bedroom of raina petkoff in a bulgarian town in 1885, during the serbobulgarian war. Course in divinity and general collectanea, the blue book. Like his other works, arms and the man questions conventional values and uses war and love as his satirical targets. The men part itself refers to a major plot thread in the book. Shaw will use the idea of the hero sergius in war the serbobulgarian war in order to satirize not merely war. In arms and the man the subject which occupies the dramatists attention is that survival of barbaritymilitarismwhich raises its horrid head from time to time to cast a doubt on the reality of our civilization. While its emphasis is historical, of arms and men also draws on such disciplines as biology, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and literature to illuminate the course of arms. Men at arms is a fantasy novel by british writer terry pratchett, the 15th book in the discworld series, first published in 1993.
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