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Eugene O'Neill and George Bernard Shaw had a great concern about ‘women.’
Through their plays they created the essence of various types of women having the inscrutable
forces, the triumph of life over death, and the significant values. The interrelated plays of
O'Neill and Shaw were selected to study the roles of such women overcoming the disruption
and achieving the harmony through the soul's introspection and the spiritual salvation, as Abbie
in Desire Under the Elms, and Barbara in Major Barbara. The world of disruption was
associated with the confrontation of conflict and struggle of beings. The would of harmony, on
the other hand, was associated with the unification of beings and the perfection of self. O'Neill
and Shaw, through the women in their plays, show an acute insight and an intuition, and
suggest various views of art and life. So, for them, women are not only main factors that puts
emphasis on the artistic truth and the lesson of life but an object of reflection and wisdom
which enables us to create a live feeling and a thought of reality and illusion and carry out
both an illustrative purpose of life and an aesthetic purpose of art. (Wonkwang University)