ADAM. You think too much. 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. [_Hegathers its hooves in his hand and carries it away in the direction fromwhich Eve came, holding it as far from him as possible_]. EVE [_snatching herself loose from Adam_] Do not make that odious noise,I tell you. Both are speaking English, but their cultural backgrounds are so different that communication is not easy. And Ihave eaten strange things: stones and apples that you are afraid to eat. Back to Methuselah (Original, Play, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Feb 27, 1922 and played through Mar 1922. . If only I can be relieved of the horror of having to enduremyself for ever! [_Shesits on the rock and pulls him down beside her, clasping him to her withher right arm_]. The Archbishop is recognizably the Reverend Haslam, Savvy Barnabas' sweetheart, no longer callow, but dignified and confident and looking no more than fifty. Adam must not perish. But the rest of us will die sooner or later, like the fawn. But he must give hisdesire and his will to you. Happiness is wicked.Certainty is blessed. You have made the beasts afraid of us; and the snake hasinvented poison to protect herself against you. EVE [_running in_] What? EVE [_throwing herself down discontentedly and plucking at the grass_]That is so like a man. You slay the tiger at the risk of yourlife; but who gets the striped skin you have run that risk for? The rock and tree are on the border of a glade in which lies a dead fawnall awry, its neck being broken. I have watched thosefaces and willed; and then I have made a woman-child that has grown upquite like them. The Prime Minister, now called The Envoy, is too overwhelmed to ask his question until he swallows a half-pint of brandy. You are still tempted. The sun will give life. ADAM [_ruminating_] You puzzle me. I should be alone. He was in the line of ten godly descendants that preserved the godly promise. See[_she spreads a magnificent amethystine hood_]! 7279, (Constable & Co., London, 1949. THE SERPENT. He need not. I had not thought of that. No: they will not kill us: they will feel as I do. When shall I die? That is very true. Shaw's promotion of Creative Evolution was always wrong, always shallow, and often rather cheap. Mine I call the Voice ofGod. After their conversation, Burge-Lubin suggests a game of marine golf, but Confucius refuses on the ground that he is too mature to enjoy playing games. Shaw, Bernard. EVE. EVE. If I am toeat like a bear, if Lua is to bring forth cubs like a bear, then I hadrather be a bear than a man; for the bear is not ashamed: he knows nobetter. EVE. 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. Boy: you have asked us a terrible question. _Adam throws down his spade, and stands looking darkly at Eve._. [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 shudders and sits down on the rock_]. ADAM. But it might be. Jealousy. EVE. We shall need each other. David Fielding's abridgement has succeeded in shortening this five-part play down to 4 fascinating hours. Oh yes, some of them, of course. CAIN. Sooner or later I shall trip and fall. Theynever want to die, because they are always learning and always creatingeither things or wisdom, or at least dreaming of them. Why am I a fool? She is outraged when ADAM [_picking up his spade and preparing to dig again_] Take yourselfoff then. You see, life is too long. I was a fool. EVE. But he killed him. Simple primitive societies, he says, were easily governable while the civilized societies of the twentieth century are so complex that learning to govern them properly can't be accomplished within the human lifespan: People with experience enough to serve the purpose fall into senility and die. What vow do youmake? Does this seem a better thing to you thanlove between us? Furthermore, one of Shaw's last plays, Farfetched Fables (1950) also classifies as science fiction,[9] and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1934). No. He who bearsthe brand of Cain shall rule the earth. She looks seventeen years old. You neither of you know anything about life. What is the good of being careful? Oh! One quotation from Back to Methuselah is frequently misattributed to Robert F. Kennedy, even though Kennedy stated that he was quoting Shaw"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' That comes before everything. Eve invents the word . They are plainly modelled from the primitives of the twentieth century. ADAM [_impressed_] That is a great thought, certainly. These wonders that you promise to do may tangle up my beingbefore they bring me the gift of death. We shall fall like thefawn and be broken. What is the matterwith you? Shaw's scientific rationale for evolving long-lived humans depended on the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Your hood is most lovely. I _have_ to think about you. Sheer fabrication, but so pleasing to the voters that he stayed in power for another fifteen years. She is a better sort of woman to live with than you. 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. My new word for having to live for ever. You imagine what you desire;you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will. He wants me to die. But I know very well that what you mean isthe horror of having to be here with me for ever. EVE. THE SERPENT. He was not my keeper any more than I was his: why did he notkill me? And of Lua they will say nothing; but when they thinkof her they will spit. 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. ADAM [_instinctively moving his hand towards her_] Husband and wife. EVE. ADAM. No voice is needed to make me feel that. [_Calling_] Adam!Adam! 2) Methuselah also was the oldest of all known mankind. They can remembertheir dreams. He has to dig for you, sweat for you, plodfor you, like the ox who helps him to tear up the ground or the ass whocarries his burdens for him. That is what hasbrought me to my mother today. You sometimes sit for hoursbrooding and silent, hating me in your heart. It is likely that he did not die as the world. Have you a word for this new misery? The secret! time, Back to Methuselah and Saint Joan. EVE [_interrupting him_] Perhaps not; but do not begin to boast of that.It is no credit to you. Whose fault was it that I killed Abel? Adam has invented something new. That was wonderfully clever of you. Be it so. It is I. I have come to shew you my beautiful new hood. He is utterly disdainful of the simple farming life and soon rudely goes away. You are hard enough to bear with as you are. He replies: he makesthe Voice respect him: in the end he dictates what the Voice shall say. ADAM. Some of them will neither dig nor fight: they are moreuseless than either of you: they are weaklings and cowards: they arevain; yet they are dirty and will not take the trouble to cut theirhair. She agrees to let him stay and grasps his hands and looks at him. Arriving hand in hand, they are gratified by the attention they receive. Always dig, dig, dig. When there are new Adams and new Eves we shall live in a garden ofstrangers. If I put off death until tomorrow, I shall never die. You must clear away some ofthose horrid things, or we shall be scratched and stung whenever weforget to look where we are stepping. Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for thatsurely is a great and blessed invention. EVE. THE SERPENT. THE SERPENT. Lua was awoman-child when I bore her. This work, written during 1918-1921, is comprised of a Preface and five Parts; each Part is a a complete play. 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. THE SERPENT. By another thing, called birth. EVE. . That is why all this empty talk of yours, which tempted Adam justnow when he threw down his spade and listened to you for a while, wentby me like foul wind that has passed over a dead body. Why should I forget it? ADAM. Ultimately he is asking if it would be expedient to hold elections now or better to put them off till spring. 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. That is too short a word for so long a thing. He kept himself alive byeating meat. CAIN. His face is buried in his hands and he is sobbing. 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). Remonstrances ensue and the Ancient apologizes, saying that had he known there was a nursery here, he should have gone another way. Did you find it like that? Life is theloveliest of all the new words. ADAM. EVE [_looking across the garden towards the hurdle_] Here is Cain. Go on with yourspinning; and do not sit there idle while I am straining my muscles foryou. I have imagined a glorious poem of many men, of more men thanthere are leaves on a thousand trees. [_He turns quickly towards the serpent, and in doingso puts his foot on something sharp_]. I fear you myself. EVE. I revolt against the clay. data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAKAAAAB4CAYAAAB1ovlvAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAw5JREFUeF7t181pWwEUhNFnF+MK1IjXrsJtWVu7HbsNa6VAICGb/EwYPCCOtrrci8774KG76 . It cannothappen. Burge-Lubin considers that impossible and calls Barnabas mad. He will not. She is the creator, youthe destroyer. Turned from the clay. You think youcould, because you know that you will never have to make your thoughtgood. I say, who invented death? I want to see my work sometimes. That is true. I have another thought: I must tell it to Adam. I am tired of myself. One of them I will lead; and the other will be led by the man Ifear most and desire to fight and kill most. [8] Methuselah is said to be Shaw's only real engagement with science fiction. 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. Discovering the possibility of death suggests possibilities for other changes and a discussion follows that deals progressively with loneliness and love, uncertainty and fear, fidelity and marriage and the courage found in laughter. He says he is the world's foremost general, invincible in battle, and adored by all his followers, although his victories cost great carnage. She takes a few uncertain steps, but quickly learns to walk, then the Ancient names her Amaryllis, as requested by the other children. THE SERPENT. THE SERPENT. How have I changed my mind? PART I He has not noticedthe serpent on his left hand. EVE. EVE. ADAM [_angrily_] How can I help brooding when the future has becomeuncertain? BACK TO METHUSELAH The first performances of Back to Methuselah were undertaken By the Theatre Guild of New York, and began on the 27th February 1922 in the Garrick Theatre in that city. Confucius congratulates him on having reached the first stage of maturity. I can make better use of my time thanto play the husband to the clay beneath my feet. 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. Whilst the east wind prevails Britain shall prosper. the curses of despair!the shrieks of torment! Arjillax explains that he intends to place images in the temple that range in age from the newly-born to the full glory of maturity. ADAM. In the preface, Shaw speaks of the pervasive discouragement and poverty in Europe after World War I, and relates these issues to inept government. A fine dream, truly! EVE. And I am very wilful, andmust have what I want; and I have willed and willed and willed. I _will_ bind the future. You must not move about.You must sit still. This splendid life of yours does not last for a thousandyears; and I must last for a thousand years. There must besomething greater than the snake. ADAM. How am I a greater fool than you? You are idle: you are selfish. Part 1 opened on February 27, 1922; Part 2 opened on March 6, 1922; and Part 3 opened on March 13, 1922. . That is a great thought. And as the man is nobler than the ox,I shall some day let my enemy eat the ox; and then I will slay and eathim. ADAM. ADAM. She is not yet visible to anyone unaware of her presence, asher colors of green and brown make a perfect camouflage. Moreover, he has recognized the person as the currently alive and active Archbishop of York. THE SERPENT. Come [_he seizes her by the hair to dragher away_]. EVE. Of newly createdthings. That is how; but it is not why. And you? You see, Eve,what a splendid thing it is not to have to live for ever. I was troubled with the burdenof eternal being; but I was not confused in my mind. Book from Project Gutenberg: Back to Methuselah. It is; and it is not. I feel as if the ground were giving wayunder my feet when it speaks. ADAM. But you used to complainof having to exist always and for ever. [5] These concepts had some currency among Shaw's contemporaries, and the Methuselah plays are based on Shaw's extrapolations from the two principles. If you are content, like the bear, I am not. ADAM. If I am not slain, yet I shall die. no adventures! THE SERPENT. THE SERPENT. ADAM [_scolding her_] Why do you say that? What have you to do with one another now? Whatdo I care? I do well to worship them. [_To Eve_] We have made our vows; and if you mustcreate, you shall create within the bounds of those vows. EVE [_to Adam_] You think, perhaps, that his way of life may be betterthan yours after all. Butif you invented death, why do you blame me, who am a minister of death? He says he'll take that chance, since it is more honourable. 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. It is the horror of having to be with myself forever. And it is courage, courage, courage, thatraises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Go in peace. CAIN. 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. Will. (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In the Beginning: B.C. I have not lived as long as you; but I know all thereis to be known of the craft of digging. Why do you do it? If only the sentinel set by the Voice can berelieved! EVE. No: he, too, must desire and will. Sooner or lateryou will die like the fawn; and the new Adams will be unable to createwithout new Eves. Who invented killing? 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). Both shew the greatestconsternation._. She will fish him out and dry him off and then let nature take its course. ADAM [_returning_] Is there another voice in the garden besides ourvoices and the Voice? Of the coming true of your dreams and mine. 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. The east wind shall wither Britain's enemies in the day of contest. It, too, is most impressive with a show of eerie lighting in a measureless abyss. It hurts. I am not, perhaps, very clever; but--. EVE. 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. Her fury turns to delight with the beauty of her tunic when they dress her. The Ancient refuses, saying he is too mature for gambolling; ancients must stick to their own ways of enjoyment. ADAM. It is unbearable. And now you want tomake still more unnatural monsters, so that you may be utterly lazy andworthless, and that your tamed human animals may find work a blastingcurse. Why not be born again and again as I am, new and beautifulevery time? Why not? Then I will do it. Love may be too long a word for so short a thing soon. 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. Tell me some miracle that you have done. ADAM. The earth is fruitful. 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. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the manknows that there is no such day as tomorrow. 2008. And if Adam keeps his vow I will love no other man until he dies. And I! You have no real strength in your bones nor sap in your flesh. Because I would not have such wretches in my house. Because if he could do that he could do without Eve. He rushes from the courtyard, blowing a whistle to summon the police, but is immobilized, within a force-field, near a monument of Falstaff, where he will stand and gibber until it is convenient to collect him. ADAM. CAIN. ADAM. THE SERPENT. Why not tame men and women to work for us? (The foreigners live no longer than the English, but they mature early.). Back to Methuselah (Revival, Play, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Mar 26, 1958 and played through Apr 19, 1958. 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. I have striven with a man: spear to spear andshield to shield. THE SERPENT. Oh, it is dreary, dreary! What more is there to tell? They do not grow very fast. They would not have the same memories. The Voicethought I was nothing but my brother's keeper. I, who have so muchin me that I hate and long to cast off! THE SERPENT. There is a terrible danger in this procrastination. Their conversation ends only when it comes time to consult the oracle. Bind the future by your will. It is I who must conceive. Life is still long enough to learn to dig, short as they aremaking it. When I have slain the boar at the risk of my life, I will throwit to my woman to cook, and give her a morsel of it for her pains. Its first full production was at the Garrick Theatre in New York, with acts 1 and 2 being . No woman shall make me live my father'slife. THE SERPENT [_to Adam_] Do you want her to die? The Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman begins in 3000 AD, on the south shore of Galway Bay where an old man is found sitting on an ancient stone bollard, once used as a mooring for ships. You make my father here your mere convenience,as you call it, for that. Promise me you will be careful. ADAM [_scrambling up in horror_] Make you die!!! Well, will you pamper me ashe pampers his woman? 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? CAIN. Barnabas goes to meet the American inventor, who wants to use Records Office film footage to create a CAIN. Find me a word for the story Lilith imagined and told you in yoursilent language: the story that was too wonderful to be true, and yetcame true. So that is what comes of turning your face to the clean clearheavens! For all that, mother, I have an instinct which tells me that deathplays its part in life. A scene from the Barry Jackson production of George Bernard Shaw's 'Back to Methuselah' at the Court Theatre, starring Colin Keith Johnson as Adam, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies as Eve and Edith Evans as the serpent, 1924. Listen to me, Eve; and you,snake, listen too, that your memory may hold my vow. "Poor short-lived thing!" [_She licks Eve's neck with her doubletongue_]. ADAM. Listen. But if I createanother Eve he may turn to her and do without me. ADAM [_springing up in sudden terror_] Oh! The ox shall make it something noblerthan grass before it comes to me. (The Jewish Publication Society translation,1917). EN. Always 'Why?' Some Reflections on Back to Methuselah in Performance Critics have had divided reactions to Back to Methuselah. Do you love your godmother Eve? 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--. Her wheel, which she turns byhand, is a large disc of heavy wood, practically a flywheel. When they come, there isalways some new wonder, or some new hope: something to live for. Do. Funny. For if you do not there will be an end. Burge-Lubin is chiding himself indulgently for mixing romance with business when Barnabas bursts in, completely overwhelmed. Will you kill tigers and bears until I have a heapof their skins to lounge on? THE SERPENT. Copies of this variorum edition are available in the Goldsmiths' Library in the University of London, the Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, and in the Rare Books Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. Sit down and be quiet; and listen tome. It is changing into little white worms. information about this edition . And I to him! 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. Back To Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw The Online Stage 16 subscribers Subscribe Like Share 707 views 1 year ago Let's go back. You are more her slave than Adam's ox oryour own sheepdog. Iremember Lilith, who came before Adam and Eve. I call that renewal being born. Besides, if it happened to you, _I_should be alone. If only there may be an end some day, and yetno end! The Voice does not tell me not to kill you. I, too, have thought of something. And I will love Eve all that time and noother woman. He steals and kills for his food;and makes up idle poems of life after death; and dresses up histerror-ridden life with fine words and his disease-ridden body with fineclothes, so that men may glorify and honor him instead of cursing him asmurderer and thief. She does so and asks if he still wants to consult an older person. [12] The BBC, in contrast, was able to provide lavish scenery by sheer power of description for its 1958 radio production of the entire play,[13]. Let itnow give me certainty or go in fear of me. It is very low; but it is so nearthat it is like a whisper from within myself. EVE. EVE [_jarred and startled_] What a hateful noise! ADAM. It is something greater than me: I am only apart of it. Begone. ADAM. Death. Now you no longer care. 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; Hush! [_He spits on his hands, and takes up the spadeagain_]. Let me go, you fool. She told it to me as a marvellous story of something thatnever happened to a Lilith that never was. The diggers come: the fighters and killers come:they are both very dull; for they either complain to me of the lastharvest, or boast to me of the last fight; and one harvest is just likeanother, and the last fight only a repetition of the first. I will divide them into two greathosts. Ifyou take a step towards your mother with that spear of yours I willstrike you with my spade as you struck Abel. Back to Methuselah; a metabiological Pentateuch. Ha! THE SERPENT. He was the inventor of killing. Away with you, naughty child; and do you,Adam, go on with your work and not waste your time listening to him. You will find more snakes than there are fingers onyour hands. 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. Barnabas hotly contested the legality of this and favoured prosecuting. One does not speak to a child as to a man.And a man does not listen and tremble in silence. He will imploreyou to let him do his share. It is admittedly possible to find some excuses for the negative side of his arguments, especially the refusal to be convinced by Darwin. CAIN. I want her to create moreand more men: aye, and more and more women, that they may in turn createmore men. 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