e days: I'm as nervous as a mouse. Would you like to see me cry?" This is hardly something that a man who kills others for a living should say. Soldiers don't cry. Shaw reminds us with his jokes that soldiers are men, and men do get afraid, even the best of them. War and the way it is very commonly portrayed is broken down and made fun of in "Arms and the Man". Even the trait of courage is belittled "I have an English bull terrier who has as much of that sort of courage as the whole Bulgarian nation". Shaw uses everything a soldier should be against him. "No they were glad; because they'd all just run away themselves." As many readers and Raina were thinking before Blunchli made this comment, soldiers don't run, they stay and fight to their deaths. But by drawing on the ironies of war and pointing out that yes even the best of them run Shaw creates a masterpiece that makes fun of war in every which way. "Arms and the Man" is a fabulous work of ironic comedy, but what about descriptive imagery?
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