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What is the man versus man conflict in the play "Candida"?

There are two instances of the conflict of man versus man in George Bernard
Shaw's celebrated play Candida. The first is between Marchbanks and Reverenc
Morell. the second is between Candida and these two men.
In the first instance, the man versus man conflict is played as Marchbanks becomes
enamored of Candida, Morell's wife, and sings her praises night and day in his
dramatically poetic style. Marchbanks contends that Morell is to commonplace and
unelevated in spirit to see what a goddess and poetic inspiration he has for a wife,
thus making Morell wholly inadequate to giving her the praise and admiration she
needs. The conflict is pushed to the limits and Candida must make a choice
between the two.
In the second instance, Candida herself depicts the man versus man conflict in that
she has a secret withheld from her husban, Reverend Morell, and it is that she is
the one who controls the home (reminiscent of Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House) and
she is the one who has gained Morell's success in life for him--he is in reality an
ieffectual pawn. Candida also depicts the conflict in her relationship with the poet
Marchbanks. Candida is committed to her life as the Mrs. Reverend Morell yet
Marchbanks sees the inner light and poetic truth of her deeper being. He draws this
part of her to the light and incites conflict by tempting her to abandon what she is
to become what she might be. Candida is forced by this man versus man conflict to
choose. Her choice is ultimately for the Shavian ideal that service in life is greater
than contentment.

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