Author: Farhana Haque

Abstract: Raina has been portrayed as one of the major characters in the play Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. Raina was fascinated towards love and gradually her sense of love got changed because of her psychological issue. In this paper i would like to exhibit the character Raina’s mental condition through the psychoanalytical explanation of Sigmund Freud.To analyse Arms and the Man, most of the researchers used the psychoanalytical approach and qualitative method. Therefore the researchers did attempt to analysis the character of Raina after using the defense contrivance. In this way i have intended to analysis the psychological condition of Raina step by step. First of all the analysis will begin with Id, Ego, Superego, anxiety and at last her defense contrivance.George Bernard Shaw actually proved that in the attributes of Raina there were the presence of idea and reality and secondly the anxiety based on the conflicts between Id, Ego, Superego therefore this major and phenomenal character did generate defense contrivance regarding her changing attitudes towards love.

Keywords: Raina, Id, Ego, Superego, Defense contrivance, Psychoanalysis, Arms and the Man.