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John Bull’s Other Island is the only play of George Bernard Shaw dealing with the Irish problem.He manages to define and ridicule colonialism in it and satires English colonialist’s intention and nature.This paper studies colonialism in this play through sexual metaphor,to decipher how it works simultaneously as an intimation of the British colonial attitudes and a satire of economic exploitation.
John Bull’s Other Island is the only play of George Bernard Shaw dealing with the Irish problem .He manages to define and ridicule colonialism in it and satires English colonialist’s intention and nature. This paper studies colonialism in this play through sexual metaphor, to decipher how it works simultaneously as an intimation of the British colonial attitudes and a satire of economic exploitation.