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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelA woman often becomes an interesting topic to be talked about. The
main character in Candida is also a woman. Candida is only an ordinary woman,
a house wife. What makes this play interesting is that Shaw's statement in his
collected letters to his friend, Ellen Terry. He stated that Candida is the Virgin
Mother and nobody else. George Bernard Shaw seems to associate the main
female character, Candida, with the Virgin Mother, Mary. It is quite interesting
because Candida is only an ordinary woman while Mary is a saint, the mother
of Jesus. Thus, this study of Shaw's Candida is aimed to find out which
characteristic(s) of Candida that reflect the qualiti(es) of the Virgin Mother. In
this thesis, the writer uses the theory of characterization to Analyze Candida's
characteristics that reflect the qualities of the Virgin Mother. Candida's
characteristics can be seen through her relationship with the two men: her
husband, James Morell and an eighteen years old boy named Eugene
Marchbanks. Candida's attitude towards those two men and what are the two
men's attitude towards Candida shows Candida's characteristics. Candida
actually has one common quality with the Virgin Mother and that is the
maternal characteristic.