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The three-act play Arms and the Man, written by George Bernard Shaw, opens in Raina Petkoff's apartments during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. When a war fugitive creeps in through her window, Raina, an immature young girl with delusions of grandeur and amorous conquest, is relaxing into bed. Raina's pride is threatened half-heartedly by the mysterious invader if she gives him up when a search party arrives, and she agrees. Raina and her mother Catherine decided to help the famished soldier get out of the house and to safety after spotting the fatigued soldier sprawled out on the bed.
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How weird it is to be spoken to in this manner all of the time. I'm referring to the noble att voice. I did it to my mother when I was a small child. It's something I do before my parents. They have faith in it.
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Please describe the key passages in light of the surrounding context.
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Context: These words are taken from W.B. Yeats' poem Arms and the Man.
Explanation: Raina lives in a false world of romance and believes she is in love with Sergius in Arms and the Man, which is considered an anti-romantic comedy. Her ideas about love are influenced by her study of Byron and Pushkin, as well as operas she has seen in Bucharest.
Sergius is the hero of the hour and the regiment's idol after leading a winning attack against the Serbs in a recent battle at Slivnitza. The play depicts Raina picking up a picture of Sergius and proudly gazing at it in a romantic manner.
She adores Sergius' photograph and can't express her feelings for him. She doesn't kiss it, but she looks at it as if it were holy. Her amorous hopes are thwarted by an unexpected encounter with Bluntschli. Raina's lofty ambitions are shattered by Bluntschli, who is free of romantic illusions about war and does not see it as a means to gain fame. Her demeanour was aristocratic, and she was proud of her family's social standing. She gradually understands how foolish her romantic ideals were. Raina and Sergius exchange ecstatic greetings after Sergius returns from the battle: Raina says "My hero! My king!" and Sergius adds "My queen!" Private Limited Company. We find Sergius flirting with the servant girl Louka and attempting to embrne her almost immediately after this interchange of sublime feelings. "Louka, do you understand what the greater love is?" Sergius asks, hinting at the higher love. "Louka, doing this job for any amount of time is exhausting."
Sergius, towards the end of the war, appears to recognise the artificiality of his beloved beliefs and shouts! Patriotic and heroic aspirations! Bluntschli is a deception, a hollow sham, like love." Raina asks herself this question later in the play. When she discovers Sergius has been flirting with Louka, she exclaims, "Oh, what kind of god have I been worshipping?" She has dropped her act of a "noble attitude and an exciting voice" now that Bluntschli has discovered her. She also sheds her romantic fantasy of higher love, which, like her views on war and troops, is most likely the result of her romance reading. As a result, the play establishes itself as an anti-romantic comedy.