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Shaw rejected Christianity because it could not satisfy the need of his time for a new cosmology. He also repudiated Darwinism on the ground that it degraded the universe to the status of mechanical fatalism. It is in this historical and philosophical context that we should attempt his works. In his endeavor to propose a brand-new theory concerning the universe and its progress, he received plenty of undeniable influence from many of his comtemporary philosophers. Schopenhauer's perception of the world as a will bore an important contrast with the theory of 'Natural Selection'. It laid the groundwork of chaw's understanding of the world. From Nietzsche's famous book 'Also Sprach Zurathustra,' he adopted the concept of a 'superman'. This superman was looked upon as the yet unborn human being to bring redemption to all mankind At the same time, he created the theory of 'Life force'. This Life Force took the place of 'God' and was put on a pedestal by Shaw. He tried to explain the Life Force in many of his plays such as man and super man, Saint Joan, Devil's Disciples and Major Barbara. For this purpose, he let the characters in his plays play the role as a performer of the Life Force. This is why you can safely say that it is almost impossible to understand his plays without understanding the Life Force. According to this theory, this invisible force gives impetus to the development of human history and makes possible the establishment of a healthy society. He contends that man has the holy obligation to embody the Life Force in real life in order to realize his own will. He translated Bergson's 'elan vital' as 'leap of vitality'. And by this leap of vitality, man is supposed to heighten himself until he can reach the level of a 'superman.' This incessant process is termed as the 'Creative Evolution'. Shaw, as a playwright, tried to project the vision of an ideal society and an optimistic future for mankind. He looked forward to the emergence of a superman as the ultimate incarnation of vitality. And to Shaw, that was equal to 'God'. His superman harmonizes the inherent confrontation between reality and ideal, spirit and body, reason and sentiment, progress and tradition, and open morality and closed morality. And The superman fulfills his mission of combining all the worldly conflicts paradoxically is pursuit of an ideal society. He represents Shaw's outlook on humanity and the universe as the avatar of the life force In Conclusion, Shaw thought of the life force as the prime mover of the Creative Evolution that will eventually bring the universe to completion. And without this invisible and intangible substance, it is impossible to define humanity and the universe