She asks if he is a foreigner and he denies it and says he is a Briton who lives in the capital. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1928. EVE. ADAM [_to Eve, grumpily_] Why do you live on, if you can find nothingbetter to do than complain? Whatever I fear to do is wicked. She loved me more than ever. no adventures! That is a sweet word. See[_she spreads a magnificent amethystine hood_]! EVE [_shaking him_] Adam: you must not brood. EVE. 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. I want her to create moreand more men: aye, and more and more women, that they may in turn createmore men. He is to take an aeroplane to the location and be dropped near the yacht by parachute. (play) (5 episodes, 1952) Series Cast Series Produced by Harold Clayton . When you have to snare the little tender birdsbecause it is too much trouble for her to chew honest food, how much ofa great warrior do you feel then? Hearken to me, old fool. It, too, is most impressive with a show of eerie lighting in a measureless abyss. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the manknows that there is no such day as tomorrow. Stay with the womanwho gives you children: I will go to the woman who gives me dreams.Grope in the ground for your food: I will bring it from the skies withmy arrows, or strike it down as it roams the earth in the pride of itslife. Even a bear would not eat a man if it could gethoney instead. The Voice of The Serpent The Parlor Maid Mrs. Lutestring, the Domestic Minister The Oracle The She-Ancient . THE SERPENT. CAIN. My new word for having to live for ever. I will live a thousand years; and then I will endure no more: Iwill die and take my rest. Back To Methuselah. Why should you trouble yourself? ADAM. Leave us in peace. _Cain kicks the hurdle out of his way, and strides into the garden. killing or digging in the garden and says her future sons will find things more wonderful to do. You callthat the nature of woman! Does not theVoice tell you that as no man dare slay you for murdering your brother,you ought to slay yourself? The four rivers running withblood! The Festival of the Artists begins. The Ancient leaves the children to their play. As a result, governmental dignities are mere figureheads, useful only for formalities and ceremonial occasions. It is changing into little white worms. I could not sit still then. BACK TO METHUSELAH A Metabiological Pentateuch by BERNARD SHAW 1921 Contents The Infidel Half Century The Dawn of Darwinism The Advent of the Neo-Darwinians Political Inadequacy of the Human Animal Cowardice of the Irreligious Is there any Hope Home - Books - Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw This page contains affiliate links. [She strokes it and pets the serpent]. 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 . Andthen there will be nothing but snakes, snakes, snakes everywhere. THE SERPENT. What have you to do with one another now? And be it noted, Lilith, the first mother, is the presiding imaginative principle of Back to Methuselah itself. PART I EVE. THE SERPENT. [_To Eve_] We have made our vows; and if you mustcreate, you shall create within the bounds of those vows. THE SERPENT. The Oracle tells him that he will die of discouragement if he stays behind. THE SERPENT. EVE. Back to Methuselah Part 1, Act 1 Life must not cease. ADAM. (The foreigners live no longer than the English, but they mature early.). The birthing proceeds: In procession, youths carry a new tunic, ewers of water, big sponges and, finally a huge egg, which is placed upon the altar. I musthave certainty. I tell you I will create, though Itear myself to pieces in the act. A fine dream, truly! They can dream without sleeping. There is a voice in the garden that tells me things. Shetakes it to lie on, and flings you the carrion flesh you cannot eat. Both Burge-Lubin and Barnabas are considerably put off because they stand in awe of her although they deem her quite good-looking. He says he is with the Prime Minister, who is married to his daughter and with General Aufsteig, who is really the Emperor of Turania, travelling incognito. (Shaw was in his mid-60s when the plays were written). information about this edition . Consternation reigns behind them because the others realise than, with the secret out, other long-lifers, previously in hiding, will emerge to join them and form a colony that will seem a threat to short-lived people. That was not alwaysthere: you could not climb a tree when I first saw you. EVE [_shuddering_] Why do you remind me of it? Have you a word for this new misery? EVE. It did; but I am not a child to be afraid of a Voice. The fawn stumbled and fell anddied. Yes, because she looked at another man. Some day you shall see me come outof this beautiful skin, a new snake with a new and lovelier skin. Mine is the Voice of Life: yours the Voice of Death. It was true: Isaw the fire consume the food on his altar. You have both invented marriage. Packed with the spot-on social commentary that George Bernard Shaw is known for, the five plays that comprise Back to Methuselah are an engaging read for lovers of classic drama and science fiction fans alike. Am I not betterthan you? EVE. Dead. Forthe Voice tells me that I must offer myself to every man to be killed ifhe can kill me. EVE. She, however, will live until she has a fatal accident, which, by the laws of chance, is inevitable for everyone. Not before. What a beautiful word! The egg keeps shouting "I want to be born! EVE. If they shorten their lives, they will dig and fight and kill anddie; and their baby Enochs will tell them that it is the will of theVoice that they should dig and fight and kill and die for ever. Do not tell him yet. That is how I pay forAbel's blood. Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch by Bernard Shaw - Free Ebook Project Gutenberg 70,452 free eBooks 62 by Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch by Bernard Shaw Download This eBook Similar Books Readers also downloaded Bibliographic Record ADAM. That is why thereis enmity between Woman the creator and Man the destroyer. He says he is the world's foremost general, invincible in battle, and adored by all his followers, although his victories cost great carnage. Think of it, man: to have no escape! On his right, Eve sits on a stool in the shadowof a tree by the doorway, spinning flax. Cease your boasting and bullying, and tell the truth. There must besomething greater than the snake. Begone. EVE [_to Adam_] You think, perhaps, that his way of life may be betterthan yours after all. I have done it too, slave as you say I am. You are the nurses and valets of the oxen and dogs andasses you have tamed to work for you. Why not? Close at handthe end of a log house abuts on a kitchen garden. 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. Find me one word for it all: you, who are so clever at words. Eve must not die before me. Barnabas hotly contested the legality of this and favoured prosecuting. Sooner thanface a thousand years of it I should kill myself, as the Voice sometimestempts me to do already. Pah! Well, you are wrong. What is the good of being careful? [10] comes close to qualifying. EVE [_snatching herself loose from Adam_] Do not make that odious noise,I tell you. she inquires and he says "Yes," adding that he is touring these islands for sentimental reasons because, in ancient times, they were the centre of the British Commonwealth. 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. [_He shudders and sits down on the rock_]. But only some. This accorded with the theories of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, even though Lamarckism was in decline and Charles Darwin's views were ascendant in 1920, when the plays were written. It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. Then I gave up your old silly drudging ways, and lived as he hadlived, by the chase, by the killing, and by the fire. The Voice does not speak to me as it does to you. [_He goes on digging withoutraising his head_]. I am the old serpent, older than Adam, older than Eve. When there are new Adams and new Eves we shall live in a garden ofstrangers. They do not grow very fast. The thought that we must not cease to be comes fromwithin. Serpent (5:349). 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. He turns his face to his right and callsexcitedly. Life is theloveliest of all the new words. Burge-Lubin considers that impossible and calls Barnabas mad. I can remember when you were yourself a thing that couldnot happen. She will fish him out and dry him off and then let nature take its course. ADAM. He became so happy that heshared his meal with the Voice that had whispered all his inventions tohim. He was the inventor of killing. But if I create another Eve he may turn to her and do without me. It is I who must conceive. THE SERPENT [_to Adam_] Do you want her to die? It wasLilith who did wrong when she shared the labor of creation so unequallybetween man and wife. Then I will do it. producer (5 episodes, 1952) Series Art Department Stephen Bundy . You have invented a word. In the preface, Shaw speaks of the pervasive discouragement and poverty in Europe after World War I, and relates these issues to inept government. _Adam throws down his spade, and stands looking darkly at Eve._. Because if he could do that he could do without Eve. Adam invents the word to-morrow. 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. I do not want to be a bear. THE SERPENT. Back to Methuselah is an epic-length play by George Bernard Shaw - not a writer given to brevity normally - so long and unwieldy, in fact, that Washington Stage Guild estimates that this three-year production is only the third or fourth full production of the play since it was written, in 1920. They are plainly modelled from the primitives of the twentieth century. It hurts. You are not stronger: you are shorter in the wind: you cannotendure. Except for the brothers, only the housemaid is greatly influenced by the prospect of longevity, for she turns out to be the only one who has really read Conrad's book. Well, will you pamper me ashe pampers his woman? Back to Methuselah. You are very subtle:tell me what to do. What is a fool? Burge-Lubin summons Confucius, the Chief Secretary, to brief him on governmental matters. The state of them that love death more than life. And there, next to it, a briar. [6][7]offers a solution: Lilith, who came before them, and was, in fact, their mother, made them male and female, so they have the ability to reproduce. THE SERPENT. You say we must not cease to exist. You call that love! Jealousy. promotional cinema showing sundry important Britons who have lost their lives by drowning, but who, with the invention's help, might not have perished. There is something else.We do not yet know what it is; but some day we shall find out; and thenwe will live on that alone; and there shall be no more digging norspinning, nor fighting nor killing. But youhave made the serpent our enemy: she has left the garden, or is dead: Inever see her now. I am tired of myself. You were the one: Adam was theother. And then you grovelled ather feet, and cried, and begged her to forgive you, and were ten timesmore her slave than ever; and she, when she had finished screaming andthe pain went off a little, she forgave you, did she not? stronger, happier, freer? Something quite different to myself, like you. He shrieks and falls, but rises once again, because The Oracle missed her target. EVE. ADAM. CAIN. I want to see my work sometimes. You think too much. She is nearly four years old and is wearying of the activities of children. THE SERPENT. I do well to worship them. There would be only the things on allfours, and the birds, and the snakes. Will you kill tigers and bears until I have a heapof their skins to lounge on? There ishero and superman. Back To Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw The Online Stage 16 subscribers Subscribe Like Share 707 views 1 year ago Let's go back. If I am to die like the fawn, why should not the rest die too? Make a vow. Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for thatsurely is a great and blessed invention. Her concern is that the old man's tears are a sign that he is suffering from discouragement, a dire sickness contracted by short-livers when they talk to long-livers over sixty. EVE. I will tell you a great secret. Back to Methuselah By the closing years of World War I, Shaw had long supported the idea that Ireland ought to achieve a kind of Home Rule, an arrangement that would grant Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales their own parliaments, but would also maintain a joint council to coordinate matters of mutual 4 myself, I was finding that the surest way to produce an effect of daring innovation and originality was to revive the ancient attraction of long rhetorical speeches; to stick closely to the methods of Molire; You shall notlisten to that snake any more. The Minister of Health is a beautiful Black African woman, and the Presidential conference turns out to be a dalliance via long-distance videophone. "Poor short-lived thing!" The garden is full of voices sometimes. We have to live here for ever.Think of what for ever means! Do you stay and listen to it. A few centuries later. . If I bind my will I strangle creation. By that he is tied to you. Icannot bear this knowledge. He who bearsthe brand of Cain shall rule the earth. I have crept through the grass, and hidden,and listened to you. And yet I must endure myself, not for a dayor for many days, but for ever. ADAM [_returning_] Is there another voice in the garden besides ourvoices and the Voice? ADAM [_rubbing his foot_] A thistle. If only I can be relieved of the horror of having to enduremyself for ever! You neither of you know anything about life. I should be alone. EVE. THE SERPENT. I adore her. That is how; but it is not why. Eve drops her distaff. The Voicethought I was nothing but my brother's keeper. It was I whowhispered the word to you that you did not know. CAIN. CAIN. (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) [_He chuckles and goes awayslowly, laughing his first laugh_]. [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. Hush! That is a great thought. It is that care thatwill prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your willirresistible; and create out of nothing. EVE [_now pitying him maternally_] Love! Acs, a three-year-old, tries unsuccessfully to comfort him, but Stephen insists on remaining disconsolate until he finds another partner. To his parents he has the self-assertive,not-quite-at-ease manner of a revolted son who knows that he is notforgiven nor approved of._. change is sure to happen. THE SERPENT. And of Lua they will say nothing; but when they thinkof her they will spit. Iremember Lilith, who came before Adam and Eve. But for her, I could notresist the sport of trying to kill you, in spite of my fear that youwould kill me. Your hood is most lovely. I have striven with a boar and with a lion as to which ofus should kill the other. Lua was awoman-child when I bore her. Its neck is wrong [_he stoops to lift the neckand shew her_]. He begs the oracle to respond in the same way she did to his illustrious predecessor, Sir Fuller Eastwind. EVE. Back to Methuselah (Original, Play, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Feb 27, 1922 and played through Mar 1922. . How have I changed my mind? ADAM. I callit fighting. THE SNAKE. 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. What have you made of yourselves? EVE. You are always spying on me. Yet I am alive, and can burst myskin and renew myself as before. Something has happened. One's own body is the last of many dolls and it will be shed, as well. She is a better sort of woman to live with than you. And all that comes of it is that he wants to be abear and eat children. Liar: you denied just now that it called on you to pay for Abel'slife with your own. That is the word that means boththe beginning in imagination and the end in creation. I do not trust the sun. THE SERPENT. Their two greatest sculptors will show their latest masterpieces and be crowned with flowers, honoured with dithyrambs and have dances done around them. THE SERPENT. He replies: he makesthe Voice respect him: in the end he dictates what the Voice shall say. Allll the way back to the beginning, with a series of. EVE. They cannot renew themselves without Eves. CAIN. 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. I know that it must not be. Then we should be no more. Back to Methuselah Part 1, Act 1 Imagination is the beginning of creation. 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. Look atthat thick roll of hard flesh on your strong arm! I cleared away the thistles and briars. EVE. ADAM. The sculptors, Arjillax and Martellus, arrive. He will be in your power through hisdesire. But he killed him. EVE. Without danger I cannot be great. You will not raise your head tolook at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run tenmiles to see a fight or a death. How am I a greater fool than you? I am the most subtle of all the creatures of the field. Then death will not matter: thissnake and that snake will die; but the snakes will live. It is especially. It found that I wasmyself, and that it was for Abel to be himself also, and look tohimself. The opening scene is a sunlit glade at the foot of thickly wooded hill, on a warm summer afternoon in 31,920 AD. Murder is not death. She spins resignedly; he digs impatiently. ADAM. Theynever want to die, because they are always learning and always creatingeither things or wisdom, or at least dreaming of them. Poor mother! EVE. EVE. An illustration of a magnifying glass. I _will_ bind the future. You say thatI make a mere convenience of Adam: I who spin and keep the house, andbear and rear children, and am a woman and not a pet animal to pleasemen and prey on them! You should not. THE SERPENT. . A monologue of The Serpent from Back to Methuselah. THE SERPENT. Of the coming true of your dreams and mine. I ate the fruits of theearth. 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? It is unbearable. It is something greater than me: I am only apart of it. How can I destroy unless she creates? Two must shareit. ADAM. Sheshall have no other food; and that will make her my slave. He says no and tries to hide his tears, which he attributes to hay fever. He says he'll take that chance, since it is more honourable. And I have to pretend to be surprised, delighted, interested;though the last child is like the first, and has said and done nothingthat did not delight Adam and me when you and Abel said it. ADAM [_brightening_] That noise takes away fear. Furthermore, one of Shaw's last plays, Farfetched Fables (1950) also classifies as science fiction,[9] and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1934). _Eve's face lights up with intense interest, which increases until anexpression of overwhelming repugnance takes its place. EVE [_turning away from him with a shrug, and hugging her ankles_] Ishould soon get tired of that. Go on with your work, I tell you; or you shall go without bread. I do not know: the word came to me. Why not live bravely, and die early and makeroom for others? It is likely that he did not die as the world. When she merely lifts her veil he shrieks that he is dying, covers his eyes, and begs her to veil herself again. The Voice does not tell me not to kill you. He lapses into tears and she puts in a call for help, saying she has encountered an unattended short-liver who is disoriented. The voice in the garden is your own voice. I worship you, Eve. No. And to fight. That was wonderfully clever of you. Itmay be tomorrow; it may be after as many days as there are leaves inthe garden and grains of sand by the river. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. 7279, (Constable & Co., London, 1949. I will tell Eve the secret; and she will tell it to you. She looks seventeen years old. You despise your father; but when he dies the world willbe the richer because he lived. If only the sentinel set by the Voice can berelieved! That is what you think, is it? There is a terrible danger in this procrastination. Ha! [5] These concepts had some currency among Shaw's contemporaries, and the Methuselah plays are based on Shaw's extrapolations from the two principles. Back to Methuselah (1952- ) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Series Directed by Alan Bromly . He is mine. If only the rest and sleep that enable me to bear it fromday to day could grow after many days into an eternal rest, an eternalsleep, then I could face my days, however long they may last. EVE. He considered it a book for reading rather than playing on the stage, and was agreeably surprised when Lawrence Langner in New York and Barry Vincent Jackson in Birmingham insisted on producing it despite expectations of monetary loss, which were promptly justified. Let the newAdams clear a place for themselves. Butwhen it is short it will be very sweet. But am I idle? I have not lived as long as you; but I know all thereis to be known of the craft of digging. In rejecting yourdrudgery, have I not embraced evils and agonies of which you knownothing? I dug and dugand dug. I had not thought of that. EN. It is not only its eyes. THE SERPENT. The growth of Shaw's own imaginative response to the catastrophe of war became a deliberate project in which he encapsulated his general conclusions about imagination based on his experience of confronting ADAM. But why did she divide into two, and make us different? No one has ever uttered such a sound before. ADAM. He has not noticedthe serpent on his left hand. ADAM. They put all sorts ofthoughts into my head. Her wheel, which she turns byhand, is a large disc of heavy wood, practically a flywheel. Yes: that is splendid: that will bind the future. He will imploreyou to let him do his share. I revolt against the clay. Love may be too long a word for so short a thing soon. Who put thisupon me? Why did it not tell Cain that? I donot know what I want, except that I want to be something higher andnobler than this stupid old digger whom Lilith made to help you to bringme into the world, and whom you despise now that he has served yourturn. He was not my keeper any more than I was his: why did he notkill me? I do not want to eat children. I like you; but I do not like myself. He readily admits repeatedly feigning death and explains that the laws enforcing mandatory retirement at a certain age and those controlling eligibility for pensions left him with no alternative: When his record showed him old enough to be retired, he could no longer keep his job but he was always denied a pension because he looked too young. Could you bear to live for ever? EVE. ADAM. You think youcould, because you know that you will never have to make your thoughtgood. Boy: you have asked us a terrible question. Theremust be two Voices: one that gulls and despises you, and another thattrusts and respects me. Ultimately he is asking if it would be expedient to hold elections now or better to put them off till spring. Life is still long enough to learn to dig, short as they aremaking it. I made the word dead to describe my old skin that I castwhen I am renewed. THE SERPENT. I must have somethingto worship. Heinvented the altar to keep the fire alive. I have told Cain already that he is not aman and that Lua is not a woman: they are monsters. You can imagine such an end; but you cannot desire it,therefore cannot will it, therefore cannot create Adams only. Bernard Shaw's epic "Back to Methuselah", which was first performed in 1922, has been revived by The Royal Shakespeare Company to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Shaw's death. Eve looks after them for a moment; then, with a shiver of disgust, sitsdown on the rock, brooding. Think of that! One of them I will lead; and the other will be led by the man Ifear most and desire to fight and kill most. time, Back to Methuselah and Saint Joan. That is just what I feel; but it is very strange that you shouldsay so: there is no pleasing you. (5 episodes, 1952) Series Writing Credits George Bernard Shaw . 25253):[14]. Undutiful! ADAM. All Rights Reserved. Burge-Lubin excuses himself, saying he must confer privately with the Minister of Health. She is not yet visible to anyone unaware of her presence, asher colors of green and brown make a perfect camouflage. She learns of the Archbishop's longevity with great interest but no evident surprise and it soon emerges that she, also, is long lived and remembers Archbishop Haslam from the time she was parlour maid for Franklyn Barnabas. ADAM. Other articles where Back to Methuselah is discussed: George Bernard Shaw: Works after World War I: plays under the collective title Back to Methuselah (1922). He is equipped withhuge spear and broad brass-bound leather shield; his casque is a tiger'shead with bull's horns; he wears a scarlet cloak with gold brooch over alion's skin with the claws dangling; his feet are in sandals with brassornaments; his shins are in brass greaves; and his bristling militarymoustache glistens with oil. But you willedand tried and willed and tried; and your will created out of nothing theroll on your arm until you had your desire, and could draw yourself upwith one hand and seat yourself on the bough that was above your head. It is admittedly possible to find some excuses for the negative side of his arguments, especially the refusal to be convinced by Darwin. [_He turns quickly towards the serpent, and in doingso puts his foot on something sharp_]. I tell you the labor is too much for one. That which makes the difference between the dead fawn andthe live one. And I am very wilful, andmust have what I want; and I have willed and willed and willed. Ifyou take a step towards your mother with that spear of yours I willstrike you with my spade as you struck Abel. All were written during 1918 to 1920 and published simultaneously by Constable (London) and Brentano's (New York) in 1921. Next come the ghosts of Eve and Cain, then those of the Serpent and Lilith, mother of mankind. 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. The Prime Minister's choice was clear. THE SERPENT. And others think of numbers without having to count ontheir fingers, and watch the sky at night, and give names to the stars,and can foretell when the sun will be covered with a black saucepan lid.And there is Tubal, who made this wheel for me which has saved me somuch labor. Stay as you are; andI will stay as I am. One quotation from Back to Methuselah is frequently misattributed to Robert F. 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