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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelGeorge Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple is about a young
man named Richard Dudgeon, or Dick, whose tongue is satirical and
bitter. His unfeeling treatment of his parents shows he has got no
love for them. However, as the devil's disciple, Richard apparently can
also do a good deed, that he decides to allow himself to be arrested
and hanged on gallows in the place of a minister. Through
characterization and conflict, the writer of the thesis applies the
literary approach to analyse the good deed of the devil's disciple in
order to discuss the motives Richard might have in acting like a
Christ's disciple. After analysing Richard Dudgeon, finally there are
no motives found in his good deed. His willingness to put his head in
a noose is not for the sake of the minister or his wife. Good deeds are
not performed for motives. No man who does what he does not want
to do is a good man. Richard wants to sacrifice himself, and he will do
the same for other people as he says. If Richard did what actually he
did not want to do, he would not do the same for other people. His
goodness has conquered his evil sides.