Major Barbara is George Bernard Shaw's provocative play about poverty, salvation, money, war, and moral compromise. Barbara Undershaft works for the Salvation Army, while her father, Andrew Undershaft, is a wealthy arms manufacturer who believes power and security come before idealistic charity. Their clash turns family reunion into a debate about how society actually changes.
Shaw refuses a simple division between purity and corruption. The play asks whether good works can depend on dirty money, and whether poverty itself is the greatest moral scandal facing respectable people. Readers interested in political theater, religious idealism, capitalism, arms trade ethics, family argument, and plays where ideas collide with uncomfortable practical truths will find a major Shaw drama.
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