cousins description

Cusins is a spectacled student, slight, thin haired, and sweet voiced, with a more com- plex form of Lomax’s complaint. His sense of humor is intellectual and subtle, and is com- plicated by an appalling temper. The lifelong struggle of a benevolent temperament and a high conscience against impulses of inhuman ridicule and fierce impatience has set up a chronic strain which has visibly wrecked his constitution. He is a most implacable, de- termined, tenacious, intolerant person who by mere force of character presents himself as— and indeed actually is—considerate, gentle, explanatory, even mild and apologetic, capable possibly of murder, but not of cruelty or coarse- ness. By the operation of some instinct which is not merciful enough to blind him with the illusions of love, he is obstinately bent on mar- rying Barbara      p.86

Andrew (undershaft) is, on the surface, a stoutish, easy- going elderly man, with kindly patient man- ners, and an engaging simplicity of character. But he has a watchful, deliberate, waiting, lis- tening face, and formidable reserves of power, both bodily and mental, in his capacious chest and long head. His gentleness is partly that of a strong man who has learnt by experience that his natural grip hurts ordinary people un- less he handles them very carefully, and partly the mellowness of age and success. He is also a little shy in his present very delicate situation. 

UNDERSHAFT. Choose money and gun- powder; for without enough of both you cannot afford the others.
CUSINS. That is your religion? 
UNDERSHAFT. Yes.
The cadence of this reply makes a full close
in the conversation. Cusins twists his face du- biously and contemplates Undershaft. Under- shaft contemplates him.

That to live is happy, has found his heaven.
My translation: what do you think of it? UNDERSHAFT. I think, my friend, that if you wish to know, as the long days go, that to live is happy, you must first acquire money enough for a decent life, and power enough to
be your own master.
CUSINS. You are damnably discouraging.
[He resumes his declamation]. p.138

 And shall not Barbara be loved for ever?

UNDERSHAFT. Euripides mentions Bar- bara, does he?
CUSINS. It is a fair translation. The word means Loveliness.

 CUSINS. As Barbara’s father, that is more your affair than mine. I can feed her by teach- ing Greek: that is about all.

UNDERSHAFT. Do you consider it a good match for her?
CUSINS [with polite obstinacy] Mr Under- shaft: I am in many ways a weak, timid, in- effectual person; and my health is far from satisfactory. But whenever I feel that I must have anything, I get it, sooner or later. I feel that way about Barbara. I don’t like marriage: I feel intensely afraid of it; and I don’t know what I shall do with Barbara or what she will do with me. But I feel that I and nobody else must marry her. Please regard that as settled.—Not that I wish to be arbitrary; but why should I waste your time in discussing what is inevitable?

UNDERSHAFT. You mean that you will stick at nothing not even the conversion of the Salvation Army to the worship of Dionysos.  p.139

UNDERSHAFT. You mean that you will stick at nothing not even the conversion of the Salvation Army to the worship of Dionysos.
CUSINS. The business of the Salvation

Army is to save, not to wrangle about the name of the pathfinder. Dionysos or another: what does it matter?
UNDERSHAFT [rising and approaching him] Professor Cusins you are a young man after my own heart.
CUSINS. Mr Undershaft: you are, as far as I am able to gather, a most infernal old rascal; but you appeal very strongly to my sense of ironic humour.  p.140

CUSINS [urbanely: trying to bring him down to earth] This is extremely interesting, Mr Undershaft. Of course you know that you are mad.
UNDERSHAFT [with redoubled force] And you?
CUSINS. Oh, mad as a hatter. You are welcome to my secret since I have discovered yours. But I am astonished. Can a madman

make cannons?   p.142

UNDERSHAFT. Oh yes I do. It draws their teeth: that is enough for me—as a man of business—
CUSINS. Nonsense! It makes them sob- er—
UNDERSHAFT. I prefer sober workmen. The profits are larger.
CUSINS. —honest—
UNDERSHAFT. Honest workmen are the most economical.
CUSINS. —attached to their homes—
UNDERSHAFT. So much the better: they will put up with anything sooner than change their shop.
CUSINS. —happy—
UNDERSHAFT. An invaluable safeguard against revolution.
CUSINS. —unselfish—
UNDERSHAFT. Indifferent to their own interests, which suits me exactly.
CUSINS. —with their thoughts on heav- enly things—
UNDERSHAFT [rising] And not on Trade Unionism nor Socialism. Excellent.

CUSINS [revolted] You really are an infer- nal old rascal. 
p.144

UNDERSHAFT [with a reasonableness
which Cusins alone perceives to be ironical] My dear Barbara: alcohol is a very necessary article. It heals the sick—
BARBARA. It does nothing of the sort.
UNDERSHAFT. Well, it assists the doc- tor: that is perhaps a less questionable way of putting it. It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. Is it Bodger’s fault that this inestimable gift is deplorably abused by less than one per cent of the poor? [He turns again to the table; signs the cheque; and crosses it].
MRS BAINES. Barbara: will there be less drinking or more if all those poor souls we are saving come to-morrow and find the doors of our shelters shut in their faces? Lord Saxmundham gives us the money to stop drinking—to take his own business from him.
CUSINS [impishly] Pure self-sacrifice on Bodger’s part, clearly! Bless dear Bodger! [Barbara almost breaks down as Adolpbus, too, fails her]   p.159

JENNY [running to Mrs Baines and throw- ing her arms round her] Oh dear! how blessed, how glorious it all is!
CUSINS [in a convulsion of irony] Let us seize this unspeakable moment. Let us march to the great meeting at once. Excuse me just an instant. [He rushes into the shelter. Jenny takes her tambourine from the drum head].  p.161

CUSINS. What is a broken heart more or less here? Dionysos Undershaft has de- scended. I am possessed.  p.162

UNDERSHAFT [to Cusins, as he marches out past him easing the slide of his trombone] “My ducats and my daughter”!
CUSINS [following him out] Money and gunpowder!
BARBARA. Drunkenness and Murder! My God: why hast thou forsaken me?
p.164

BARBARA. Are you joking, Dolly?
CUSINS [patiently] No. I have been mak- ing a night of it with the nominal head of this household: that is all.
LADY BRITOMART. Andrew made you drunk!
CUSINS. No: he only provided the wine. I think it was Dionysos who made me drunk. [To Barbara] I told you I was possessed. p.171

LADY BRITOMART. It was much more ex- cusable to marry him than to get drunk with him. That is a new accomplishment of An- drew’s, by the way. He usen’t to drink.
CUSINS. He doesn’t now. He only sat there and completed the wreck of my moral basis, the rout of my convictions, the purchase of my soul. He cares for you, Barbara. That is what makes him so dangerous to me. p.172 

CUSINS. He said all the charitable insti- tutions would be down on him like kites on a battle field if he gave his name.
LADY BRITOMART. That’s Andrew all over. He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
CUSINS. He convinced me that I have all my life been doing improper things for proper reasons. p.173

CUSINS [from the platform] Dummy sol- diers?
UNDERSHAFT. No: the real thing. [Cusins and Barbara exchange glances. Then Cusins sits on the step and buries his face in his hands. Barbara gravely lays her hand on his shoulder, and he looks up at her in a sort of whimsical desperation]. Well, Stephen, what do you think of the place? p.195

CUSINS. Yes, a confession. Listen, all. Until I met Barbara I thought myself in the main an honorable, truthful man, because I wanted the approval of my conscience more than I wanted anything else. But the moment I saw Barbara, I wanted her far more than the approval of my conscience. p.201 

LADY BRITOMART. Adolphus!
CUSINS. It is true. You accused me your- self, Lady Brit, of joining the Army to worship Barbara; and so I did. She bought my soul like a flower at a street corner; but she bought it for herself.
UNDERSHAFT. What! Not for Dionysos or another?
CUSINS. Dionysos and all the others are in herself. I adored what was divine in her, and was therefore a true worshipper. But I was romantic about her too. I thought she was

202 Major Barbara
a woman of the people, and that a marriage with a professor of Greek would be far beyond the wildest social ambitions of her rank. p.202 

Editorial

Leader/Editorial

-informative
-persuasive

Should be written in the following format:

-Introduction
-Key point
-key point
-key point
-concession- the act of giving or conceding (giving in to an argument that the opposing side might make)
-final key point, smacking down concession
- conclusion

If you will write an editorial like in the new york times you have to make sure that you have: a hook, drop the lead and only then a hard introduction.
It is suggested to make a persuasive editorial (since it would be easier for us).

However every editorial still has to be speaking to the audience. Every newspaper knows what their audience is and hence every editorial ("editors opinion")still appeals to them. Occasionally they will write an editorial to challenge their audience, however most will still speak to them.

Write your editorial on a current issue(get a paper that you can pull a newspaper out of) e.g. Climate change, paris conference, syria, migrant/refugee crisis, paris + brussels attacks,(one can go back to discussing whether this is a migration or a refugee crisis) presidential election   (US), Brexit (reasons for and against), the role of an independent supreme court in a free society.

You must always have the language and the tone of the newspaper you are writing to.

Major Barbara- analysis

For prosperity you need:

1. Human resources (of appropriate age, young and many of them)

2. Infrastructure 

3. Appropriate investment in education(in america this costs a fortune, and all schools are based on housing taxes)

4. Appropriate investment in healthcare(healthcare is also expensive

5. Natural resources

Major Barbara was written during the height of UK's Industrial Revolution. The idea is that commerce is going to fix everything. However its hasn't because there is still a huge disparity between the rich and the poor. Therefore then there are organisations such as the Salvation army who are intrenched into caring for the poor people. However what they are doing in reality is trading food for prayer. 

Shaw sees commerce as the answer. However the question is, what do we do with commerce? Shaw is saying that the real power of England is in the hands of the people who control the money, not the government.  The end of the play is what we call the tri-partite. 

Undershaft is so excited for cousins to become the leader of the business because he is a Greek professor. A professor of the classes.

*UNDERSHAFT*- can undershaft exist now? In our times.