This play marked George Bernard Shaw's introduction as an outstanding playwright to the theatre-loversof London in 1894. The play is a comedy about love and war that contradicts thepopular notion that soldiers are heroes who are inspired by patrioticsentiments, and projects fighting as a profession like any other. The play is a satire on militarism thatimplies that the inexperienced and raw youth rashly risk their lives on thebattlefront, and draws a line between the 'ideal' and the 'real'. Like war, lovetoo has no romantic glamour. The satire, as such, focuses on a great deal oftruth in love and war.