Each has a say, in accordance with their characters, and Lilith prophesies an end of life's slavery to matter, whereupon the spectres vanish. ADAM. CAIN. I was her darling as I amyours. THE SERPENT. And at last it would happento me too. By that he is tied to you. Begone. EVE [_now pitying him maternally_] Love! The rock and tree are on the border of a glade in which lies a dead fawnall awry, its neck being broken. You have no real strength in your bones nor sap in your flesh. Hope is wicked. When Adam delved and Eve span, where was then the gentleman? EVE. I take my chance. You are no superman: you are Anti-Man: you are to othermen what the stoat is to the rabbit; and she is to you what the leech isto the stoat. No one has ever uttered such a sound before. No progress! Near her head alow rock shows above the Johnswort. ADAM [_angrily_] How can I help brooding when the future has becomeuncertain? There was no more to prevent him than there was to prevent me:it was man to man; and I won. Without danger I cannot be great. You callthat the nature of woman! Creative Evolution, translated by Arthur Mitchell, Ph.D. New York: Henry Holt and Company (1911). ADAM. The body of the serpent becomes visible,glowing with wonderful new colors. I make no vows. I dared everything. You said there would be no killing because the Voice would tell ourchildren that they must not kill. It would be nice to be new again; but myold skin would lie on the ground looking just like me; and Adam wouldsee it shrivel up and--. It has a queer smell. THE SERPENT. According to Louis Crompton in Shaw the Dramatist (pp. The two are scantily and carelessly dressed in rough linen and leaves.They have lost their youth and grace; and Adam has an unkempt beard andjaggedly cut hair; but they are strong and in the prime of life. Ask that woman whom you made, who is also my wife,whether she would have me as I was in the days when I followed the waysof Adam, and was a digger and a drudge? I am tired of myself. Their conversation ends only when it comes time to consult the oracle. No: he, too, must desire and will. I will bedelivered from fear. ADAM. EVE. THE SERPENT. Try a taste of fighting. You and Adam. I will tell Eve the secret; and she will tell it to you. It is I who am to die. But I should not like it. Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (The Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. ADAM. [_He turns quickly towards the serpent, and in doingso puts his foot on something sharp_]. THE SERPENT. I feel as if the ground were giving wayunder my feet when it speaks. CAIN. You need not live to see another summer; and yet thereshall be no end. [_Shegoes to it; and he is emboldened to go with her_]. Burge-Lubin declines the offer. If you are content, like the bear, I am not. You learnt nothing from him: youdrudged and drudged and drudged, and dug and dug and dug, and made me dothe same. ADAM. EVE. conclusions in a book. THE SERPENT. It is admittedly possible to find some excuses for the negative side of his arguments, especially the refusal to be convinced by Darwin. RM 2M3T4KJ - Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with Colin Keith-Johnston as Adam, Gwen Ffangcon-Davies as Eve, and Edith Evans as the serpent in part I 'In the beginning'. Poor mother! [4] Nevertheless, he uses both terms in Man and Superman which was written nine years before Bergson's work was published. I, too, have thought of something. Barnabas goes to meet the American inventor, who wants to use Records Office film footage to create a THE SERPENT. It is not only its eyes. I do not trust the sun. If they are lazy and have a will towards death I cannot help it.I will live my thousand years: if they will not, let them die and bedamned. Icannot bear this knowledge. Then I will do it. EVE. ADAM. Turned from the clay. In rejecting yourdrudgery, have I not embraced evils and agonies of which you knownothing? The answer they had expected was the one Sir Eastwind had reported: "When Britain was cradled in the west, the east wind hardened her and made her great. EVE. When you and Adam talk, I hear you say 'Why?' It was for that that Lilith set you free from thetravail of women, not for theft and murder. Itmeans that nothing is certain but uncertainty. Why do you want to drive him away? His meal cost him a day's glorious health-giving sport andan hour's amusing play with the fire. Will you kill tigers and bears until I have a heapof their skins to lounge on? They would not have the same memories. Oh no.How can you even think such a horror? Shaw's solution is enhanced longevity: we must learn to live much longer; a centenarian should be less than middle aged. ADAM. She belongs to a colony of long-lived people and has been assigned the task of protecting short-lived visitors. A She-Ancient arrives to supervise the birthing. ADAM [_picking up his spade and preparing to dig again_] Take yourselfoff then. They drag us down to the level of the beasts. I will hunt: I will fight and strive to the very bursting of mysinews. In the glade, a group of youths and maidens, all appearing to be eighteen or older are dancing gracefully to music played on flutes. I gathered a part of the life in my body, and shut it intoa tiny white case made of the stones I had eaten. That is too wonderful. You were a man-child when I bore you. Allll the way back to the beginning, with a series of. It is the horror of having to be with myself forever. Kill me; and you will find another snake in thegarden tomorrow. You say we must not cease to exist. How can I destroy unless she creates? _Adam springs to his feet. Make a vow. I had not thought of that. EVE. The earthfeeds us. You her master! His prime interest was not scientific, but political, as stated in the Preface where he discusses changes he considers essential before mankind can govern itself successfully. It is terrible; but there is no joy like it. EVE. ADAM [_struck_] That must be true. [11] Unlike the plays Shaw wrote for staging, which include precise descriptions of the settings, the details of stage settings for Methuselah are sketchy and serve only to direct the imagination of the reader. He begs the oracle to respond in the same way she did to his illustrious predecessor, Sir Fuller Eastwind. ADAM. If I am not slain, yet I shall die. If I am to overtake death, I must appoint a real day, not atomorrow. His solution was to fake his death and, as a different person, begin a new career. ADAM. ADAM. It does not console me. That is the word. EVE [_pointing to the fawn_] Like that. It is I who must conceive. I will take care of you and bring you what you want. Give it to me; or I willkill you when next I catch you asleep. Tell me some miracle that you have done. 2) Methuselah also was the oldest of all known mankind. [_He chuckles and goes awayslowly, laughing his first laugh_]. Kill, kill, kill, kill. Happiness is wicked.Certainty is blessed. Eat the dust. CAIN. That is what you think, is it? Does not theVoice tell you that as no man dare slay you for murdering your brother,you ought to slay yourself? The Archbishop is recognizably the Reverend Haslam, Savvy Barnabas' sweetheart, no longer callow, but dignified and confident and looking no more than fifty. CAIN [_letting his spear fall into the crook of his shield arm, andtwirling his moustache_] There is something higher than man. THE SERPENT. As night is falling, the children seek shelter in the temple. What are you now, with your shield and spear, and your brother'sblood crying from the ground against you? I call that renewal being born. THE SERPENT. Darkness ensues and the ghost of Adam appears as a vague radiance. However, counter-measures are not taken because it is realised that any one of them may be long-lived too, but not yet aware of it. The reason for his doing so, as he tells Confucius, is that he doesn't wish to risk contracting rheumatism from exposure to the cold waters of the bay, since he might have to live 300 years, rheumatic. ADAM. You are very subtle. It was playing about; and it tripped and went head over heels.It never stirred again. Dare it. EVE. Yourhair streams in the wind as if it were trying to stretch itself furtherand further. THE SERPENT. Eve: do notplay with me about this. It is long and hard andpainful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life othershave made. When there are new Adams and new Eves we shall live in a garden ofstrangers. Ihave a plan. EVE [_musing_] Yes, to dig. EVE [_interrupting him_] Perhaps not; but do not begin to boast of that.It is no credit to you. No. She loved me more than ever. Pygmalion has successfully created a pair of living, artificial human beings and is ready to display them, which he does, to an audience made impatient by his incomprehensible scientific explanations. ADAM. EVE. Let us listen to the snake. He lapses into tears and she puts in a call for help, saying she has encountered an unattended short-liver who is disoriented. Sooner or later I shall trip and fall. Mine is the Voice of Life: yours the Voice of Death. When you fighters do notget killed in fighting one another or fighting the beasts, you die frommere evil in yourselves. It is something greater than me: I am only apart of it. [3] Neither Creative Evolution nor the Life Force were Shavian inventions. As Far as Thought Can Reach is in a time when short-lived people are a mere footnote in ancient history, and great longevity is the norm. Whereupon she vanishes, the lighting turns to daylight and the abyss is no more. Everything is possible: everything. CAIN. Go in peace. EVE [_running in_] What? Conrad has published their My new word for having to live for ever. Eve drops her distaff. If they learn to propagate they can make other humans to tend the garden and thus be free to escape from living when they wish. CAIN. The serpent never dies. It hurts. ButAbel was a discoverer, a man of ideas, of spirit: a true Progressive. [10] comes close to qualifying. What is the matterwith its eyes? For that is what it would come to,just as it came to lambs and kids when Abel began with sheep and goats.You are a poor silly creature after all. CAIN. time, Back to Methuselah and Saint Joan. Anything is better than uncertainty. There must besomething greater than the snake. [_He shudders and sits down on the rock_]. Why, I--I! ADAM. Then I gave up your old silly drudging ways, and lived as he hadlived, by the chase, by the killing, and by the fire. Besides, if it happened to you, _I_should be alone. He kept himself alive byeating meat. Forthe Voice tells me that I must offer myself to every man to be killed ifhe can kill me. I want her to create moreand more men: aye, and more and more women, that they may in turn createmore men. THE SERPENT. [_He goes away roaring with laughter, which ceases as he cries from thedistance_] Goodbye, mother. The world is wide enough to keep usapart. Shaw also advocates what he calls homeopathy as a pedagogical method, arguing that society "can only be lamed and enslaved by" education. EVE. Love may be too long a word for so short a thing soon. EVE. Selfish, yes: a life in which no man is his brother's keeper,because his brother can keep himself. THE SERPENT. EVE. Burge-Lubin is chiding himself indulgently for mixing romance with business when Barnabas bursts in, completely overwhelmed. ADAM. All Rights Reserved. EVE. If I can do that, what can I not do? Yes: it must not be. Something quite different to myself, like you. That is how I pay forAbel's blood. Zoo is the replacement. THE SERPENT. He says he'll take that chance, since it is more honourable. Poorwretch: do you think I do not know her, and know you, better than that?Do you risk your life when you trap the ermine and the sable and theblue fox to hang on her lazy shoulders and make her look more like ananimal than a woman? An immense serpent is sleeping withher head buried in a thick bed of Johnswort, and her body coiled inapparently endless rings through the branches of a tree, which isalready well grown; for the days of creation have been longer than ourreckoning. Then there is no such thing as divine justice, unless you arelying. Oh! Heinvented the altar to keep the fire alive. I want to see my work sometimes. Let the Rotterjacks look to it." Lilith did not imagine him so. You are lazy: you are dirty: youneglect yourself: you are always dreaming: you would eat bad food andbecome disgusting if I did not watch you and occupy myself with you. Of newly createdthings. THE SERPENT. I like it. Ugh! In an effort to shed light on what he regards as a pervasive failure of modern governance, Shaw projects his imagination backwards and forwards in time, dissecting what went wrong and . THE SERPENT. Hewas the discoverer of blood. "Baghdad?" And if Adam keeps his vow I will love no other man until he dies. It was I whowhispered the word to you that you did not know. Man-eating! Be thankful to your parents, whoenabled you to hand on your burden to new and better men, and won foryou an eternal rest; for it was we who invented death. Liar: you denied just now that it called on you to pay for Abel'slife with your own. That must not be. ADAM. My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure. THE SERPENT. Serpent (5:349). Back to Methuselah (1952- ) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Series Directed by Alan Bromly . EVE. It was true: Isaw the fire consume the food on his altar. Eve, better humored (having given upworrying), sits and spins and thinks. [Shaw wrote an extra scene for this part, which he later deleted and then published separately as A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas], The Thing Happens begins in 2170, 150 years after the Barnabas brothers disclosed their inferences, Englishmen continue immature throughout their lives. I could kill both of you; andyou could no more defend yourselves than a couple of sheep. Shaw, Bernard. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Back to Methuselah. You say itgives us strength: does it not also turn into filth and smite us withdiseases? She is not yet visible to anyone unaware of her presence, asher colors of green and brown make a perfect camouflage. Turned upward to the sun, to the clear cleanheavens. I will go back to my bravewarrior friends and their splendid women. Why do you do it? You think youcould, because you know that you will never have to make your thoughtgood. Why not tame men and women to work for us? The heavens are empty, child. But I have more wonderful news than that. ADAM. It is very low; but it is so nearthat it is like a whisper from within myself. who have the labor of the child-bearing: I! Well, as the serpent used to say, why not? The serpent has made a beautiful word for being. CAIN. No matter: some day I shallforget and stumble. EVE. THE SERPENT [_responding affectionately_] It is so, dear Adam. Itmay be tomorrow; it may be after as many days as there are leaves inthe garden and grains of sand by the river. You must clear away some ofthose horrid things, or we shall be scratched and stung whenever weforget to look where we are stepping. ADAM [_ruminating_] You puzzle me. Shaw had an exalted opinion of Back to Methuselah as both literature and philosophy; in the press release he wrote for its publishers (Constable & Co., London) he said it would "interest biologists, religious leaders, and lovers of the marvellous in fiction as well as lovers of the theatre" and described it as his supreme work in dramatic literature. Oh! I am to be a mere convenience to make men for you to kill! Yet I am alive, and can burst myskin and renew myself as before. [_Trying to pronounce it_] B-birth? Shaw's "homeopathic" educational method consisted of lying to students, until the students were able to see through the lies and argue with the teachers. Will. Everything must have been created out of nothing. I am very wise. Iremember Lilith, who came before Adam and Eve. And what he will be to youand not to any other woman is husband; and what you will be to him andnot to any other man is wife. But I have some thoughts that come from within me andnot from the voices. I will live a thousand years; and then I will endure no more: Iwill die and take my rest. ADAM [_springing up in sudden terror_] Oh! The Ancients' evolutionary goal, he tells the. Back to Methuselah; a metabiological Pentateuch. THE SERPENT. But am I idle? Arriving hand in hand, they are gratified by the attention they receive. She asks if he is a foreigner and he denies it and says he is a Briton who lives in the capital. You must not remind me of unhappy things. He says he is the world's foremost general, invincible in battle, and adored by all his followers, although his victories cost great carnage. You must tell us your secret. THE SERPENT. CAIN. Hearken to me, old fool. Of better things. Yes:there is no such thing as nothing, only things we cannot see. A man's eventual destiny is to be bodiless, a vortex of energy, immortal, and free to roam among the stars. It issilly to say you do not care. But how? She saw death as yousaw it when the fawn fell; and she knew then that she must find out howto renew herself and cast the skin like me. ADAM. It cannothappen. I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought thanI am. They are plainly modelled from the primitives of the twentieth century. This change, Shaw predicts, will happen through Creative Evolution (evolutionary change that occurs because it is needed or wantedthe Lamarckian view and not as a result of natural selectionDarwinism) as influenced by the Life Force (l'lan vital). Back To Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw The Online Stage 16 subscribers Subscribe Like Share 707 views 1 year ago Let's go back. It is poisoning the air. Back to Methuselah. EVE. Why, it gave me right. THE SERPENT. All were written during 1918 to 1920 and published simultaneously by Constable (London) and Brentano's (New York) in 1921. EVE [_turning impatiently to the snake_] That heart-biting sound again!Do not do it. Those whom I slay woulddie if I spared them. She is a mere girl of fifty-six and looks more like nineteen to the Elderly Gentleman, who is approaching seventy. Only,there must be some end, some end: I am not strong enough to beareternity. So that is what comes of turning your face to the clean clearheavens! This play is getting its first American production since the 1922 world premiere in New York. Not before. Go on with your work, I tell you; or you shall go without bread. Have you a word for this new misery? EVE [_trying to shake it and roll it over_] It is stiff and cold. EVE [_angrily throwing down her distaff_] What! to beAdam, Adam, Adam through more days than there are grains of sand by thetwo rivers, and then be as far from the end as ever! Do you love your godmother Eve? Will they live long enough to eat manna? It has not yet told me the secret. That is a sweet word. Yes. Can you find aname for that knowledge? You are idle: you are selfish. Back to Methuselah Part 1, Act 1 Imagination is the beginning of creation. When I ask you what I havedone to you, you say you are not thinking of me, but of the horror ofhaving to be here for ever. When Lilith told me whatshe had imagined in our silent language (for there were no words then) Ibade her desire it and will it; and then, to our great wonder, the thingshe had desired and willed created itself in her under the urging of herwill. I have crept through the grass, and hidden,and listened to you. Yes, until you create another Adam. ha! [_She comes quickly behind him andturns up his face to her_]. Martellus laughs, but not in mockery; he says he, too, attempted such a project, but has smashed all his sculptures and thrown away his tools. THE SERPENT. The Ancient deftly opens the shell using a pair of saws and reveals a pretty girl, looking fresh and rosy, but with strands of spare albumen clinging to her body. She asks if the child is ready to be born and Acis says the child is more than ready, that she has been shouting and kicking inside her egg and refuses to wait quietly. Love is uncertain. Jealousy. I despised myself fornot doing as he did instead of what you did. He was not my keeper any more than I was his: why did he notkill me? EVE. Whose fault was it that I killed Abel? EVE. THE SERPENT. May your tongue be accurst for such blasphemy! I callit fighting. The Voicethought I was nothing but my brother's keeper. And then you,Cain, come to me with your stupid fighting and destroying, and yourfoolish boasting; and you want me to tell you that it is all splendid,and that you are heroic, and that nothing but death or the dread ofdeath makes life worth living. ADAM. CAIN. [_He sits down on the stone_]. That is a great thought. Ifyou take a step towards your mother with that spear of yours I willstrike you with my spade as you struck Abel. Already most ofour grandchildren die before they have sense enough to know how to live. You will find more snakes than there are fingers onyour hands. But you could come softly up behind me and [_she suddenly pounceson his shoulders and throws him forward on his face_] throw me down sothat I should die. Die. CAIN. Adam and Eve, as avatars for aboriginal humanity, discover a fawn dead from a broken neck and realize they, too, will die eventually from some mishap, even though they are immune to aging. THE SNAKE. I could not sit still then. The first scene opens with England's president, Burge-Lubin (descendant and composite of the politicians seen in The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas) squabbling with a Barnabas descendantvia telephones equipped with televisionabout which of them should welcome a visiting American who has invented a method for breathing underwater. I am tired of pulling these things up to keep the gardenpleasant for us for ever. Her pangs were terrible: hergroans drove sleep from Eden. A miracle is an impossible thing that is neverthelesspossible. Yes, because she looked at another man. "Poor short-lived thing!" My boy: this is neither man nor woman nor lovenor life. She was alone: there was no man with her. THE SERPENT. Why should I? What should Ibe if I had stuck to the digging you taught me? All you men, except only Adam, are my sons, or mysons' sons, or my sons' sons' sons: you all come to see me: you all shewoff before me: all your little wisdoms and accomplishments are trottedout before mother Eve. there was not one new Lilith but two:one like herself, the other like Adam. I will dig, andlive. This work, written during 1918-1921, is comprised of a Preface and five Parts; each Part is a a complete play. [_Hegathers its hooves in his hand and carries it away in the direction fromwhich Eve came, holding it as far from him as possible_]. If only there may be an end some day, and yetno end! But it might be. And be it noted, Lilith, the first mother, is the presiding imaginative principle of Back to Methuselah itself. Dead. And I will love Eve all that time and noother woman. [_Adam, with a weary shrug, throws down his spade. She will fish him out and dry him off and then let nature take its course. He who has never fought has never lived. Death is not an unhappy thing when you have learnt how toconquer it. [_She licks Eve's neck with her doubletongue_]. ADAM. Savvy and Haslam are nearly unaffected because the entire idea is well above their heads. No voice is needed to make me feel that. EVE [_angrily to the snake_] This death that you have brought into thegarden is an evil thing. Am I not betterthan you? They have not will enoughto create instead of dreaming; but the serpent said that every dreamcould be willed into creation by those strong enough to believe in it.There are others who cut reeds of different lengths and blow throughthem, making lovely patterns of sound in the air; and some of them canweave the patterns together, sounding three reeds at the same time, andraising my soul to things for which I have no words. CAIN. Think of it, man: to have no escape! I will not have it. ADAM. Then I must, though I loathe it. The hard work of government is carried out by hired consultants from Africa and China unless competent Scots, Irishmen or Welshmen chance to be available. Then love will be no longer uncertain. See[_she spreads a magnificent amethystine hood_]! Boy: you have asked us a terrible question. That is too short a word for so long a thing. He killed Abel. I do not want to be a bear. CAIN. But if I createanother Eve he may turn to her and do without me. You shall notlisten to that snake any more. ADAM. Lilith Richard Easton. Find me one word for it all: you, who are so clever at words. Michael Holroyd describes the plays as "a masterpiece of wishful thinking" and calls them science fiction. ADAM. Your bowels become rotten; yourhair falls from you; your teeth blacken and drop out; and you die beforeyour time, not because you will, but because you must. When you die, men will say, 'He was agreat warrior; but it would have been better for the world if he hadnever been born.' EVE. They have come to consult the oracle about matters of utmost importance. The Voice does not tell me not to kill you. Always 'Why?' Senior School Recitation finals Nov 25, 2008 . You change your mind so often. If that is to be thelast thing as it has been the first, let mankind perish. I know the craftof fighting and of hunting: in a word, the craft of killing. That is the great secret. 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