You made Abel also. By that he is tied to you. THE SERPENT. At theopposite side of the garden is a thorn brake with a passage through itbarred by a hurdle. Why am I a fool? Funny. THE SERPENT. THE SERPENT. For if you do not there will be an end. The Ancients' evolutionary goal, he tells the. For all that, mother, I have an instinct which tells me that deathplays its part in life. EVE. Both shew the greatestconsternation._. For it whispers to me that death is not really death:that it is the gate of another life: a life infinitely splendid andintense: a life of the soul alone: a life without clods or spades,hunger or fatigue--. Instead of breathing you sneeze, or coughup your insides, and wither and perish. ha! EVE [_throwing herself on the ground beside him, and grasping his knee_]You must be careful. ADAM. THE SERPENT. 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. I am tired of myself. Back to Methuselah Part 1, Act 1 Life must not cease. I musthave certainty. ADAM. ADAM. Only when he has fought, when he hasfaced terror and death, when he has striven to the spending of the lastrally of his strength, can he know what it is to rest in love in thearms of a woman. I make no vows. Do not listen to her: the noise is good: it lightens my heart.You are a jolly snake. No woman shall make me live my father'slife. Andnettles, too! There is a second birth. [3] Neither Creative Evolution nor the Life Force were Shavian inventions. THE SERPENT. That comes before everything. A miracle is an impossible thing that is neverthelesspossible. Near her head alow rock shows above the Johnswort. They were first performed in 1922 by the New York Theatre Guild at the old Garrick Theatre in New York City[1] and, in Britain, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1923.[2]. There is a voice in the garden that tells me things. It is I who must conceive. [_He goes past her to the stone, andfondles the serpent_]. I am not, perhaps, very clever; but--. Some day you shall see me come outof this beautiful skin, a new snake with a new and lovelier skin. 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. I can talk of many things. 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. 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--. And it is courage, courage, courage, thatraises the blood of life to crimson splendor. THE SERPENT. I can remember when you were yourself a thing that couldnot happen. Ha! EVE. It was playing about; and it tripped and went head over heels.It never stirred again. Cassio from 'Othello'3rd Gentleman from 'The Winter's Tale'Cain from 'Back to Methuselah' by George Bernard Shaw ADAM. ADAM. That was wonderfully clever of you. What is the good of being careful? As a result, governmental dignities are mere figureheads, useful only for formalities and ceremonial occasions. 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. She, however, will live until she has a fatal accident, which, by the laws of chance, is inevitable for everyone. But he must give hisdesire and his will to you. THE SERPENT. Anything is better than uncertainty. Whilst the east wind prevails Britain shall prosper. _Adam springs to his feet. THE SERPENT. I envied his happiness, his freedom. Because Back to Methuselah is made up of five full-length plays, it is extremely difficult to produce. [_He sits down on the stone_]. What are you now, with your shield and spear, and your brother'sblood crying from the ground against you? When you fighters do notget killed in fighting one another or fighting the beasts, you die frommere evil in yourselves. THE SERPENT. Theywould be--I want a word for them. I tell you the labor is too much for one. Back to Methuselah was presented in three parts. CAIN. I tell you it must not be. Butwhen it is short it will be very sweet. Andthen there will be nothing but snakes, snakes, snakes everywhere. ADAM. THE SERPENT [_to Adam_] Do you want her to die? I have done it too, slave as you say I am. 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. They cannot renew themselves without Eves. ADAM. Look atthat thick roll of hard flesh on your strong arm! It is I who must conceive. Then there is no such thing as divine justice, unless you arelying. You know what I mean. While awaiting help, she asks how he obtained admission to the island, since ordinary tourists are routinely turned away. He was not my keeper any more than I was his: why did he notkill me? The serpent has made a beautiful word for being. She, being long lived understands no metaphors and speaks the literal truth, while he consistently uses figures of speech instead of stating simple facts. But they might not be quite the same. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. Book from Project Gutenberg: Back to Methuselah. THE SERPENT. killing or digging in the garden and says her future sons will find things more wonderful to do. A path with stairs of rough-cut stone leads upward from the temple to the hill. I will tell Eve the secret; and she will tell it to you. Zozim and Zoo, dressed impressively in costumes that they disparage as foolish, but are demanded by their short-lived clients, lead the visiting party into the temple. THE SERPENT. And to fight. 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. Shaw uses science fictioneering in Methuselah to add plausibility to scenarios and to keep readers entertained while he propounds his vision of the human destiny. Conrad has published their The Archbishop is recognizably the Reverend Haslam, Savvy Barnabas' sweetheart, no longer callow, but dignified and confident and looking no more than fifty. EVE [_throwing her arms round the serpent_] My beautiful snake. ADAM [_springing up in sudden terror_] Oh! [_To Eve_] We have made our vows; and if you mustcreate, you shall create within the bounds of those vows. Keep a guard on your own tongue; and do not curse my son. The official database for Broadway theatre information . Let the newAdams clear a place for themselves. The two are scantily and carelessly dressed in rough linen and leaves.They have lost their youth and grace; and Adam has an unkempt beard andjaggedly cut hair; but they are strong and in the prime of life. But only some. ADAM [_rubbing his foot_] A thistle. Back To Methuselah. I made the word dead to describe my old skin that I castwhen I am renewed. EVE [_admiring it_] Oh! No: he, too, must desire and will. ADAM [_brightening_] That noise takes away fear. Yes. [_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 [_looking across the garden towards the hurdle_] Here is Cain. When she merely lifts her veil he shrieks that he is dying, covers his eyes, and begs her to veil herself again. You are always spying on me. But I know very well that what you mean isthe horror of having to be here with me for ever. Its neck is wrong [_he stoops to lift the neckand shew her_]. CAIN. The hard work of government is carried out by hired consultants from Africa and China unless competent Scots, Irishmen or Welshmen chance to be available. Yes: it must not be. 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. I will bedelivered from fear. These wonders that you promise to do may tangle up my beingbefore they bring me the gift of death. Things wear out by practice: they do not grow by it. 2) Methuselah also was the oldest of all known mankind. They borrow and never pay; but one gives them what they want,because they tell beautiful lies in beautiful words. Eve will never belonely now that her snake can talk to her. I despised myself fornot doing as he did instead of what you did. ADAM [_despairingly_] But we shall cease to be. ADAM. Then death will not matter: thissnake and that snake will die; but the snakes will live. (play) (5 episodes, 1952) Series Cast Series Produced by Harold Clayton . Yousee things; and you say 'Why?' He laughed at me; and then came my great idea: why notkill him as he killed the beasts? They drag us down to the level of the beasts. She enjoys the flirting, but rejects a rendezvous and breaks the connection. EVE. Promise me you will be careful. Be silent, both of you. EVE. I have not lived as long as you; but I know all thereis to be known of the craft of digging. Give it to me; or I willkill you when next I catch you asleep. ADAM. After the briefest sort of conversation, the pair leaves together, obviously intending to produce some long-lived children. No matter: some day I shallforget and stumble. They expound his philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Eden to 31,920 ce. He foundout that the fire of the sun could be brought down by a dewdrop. The discussion is interrupted by the arrival of the Domestic Minister, Mrs Lutestring to give her mandatory quarterly report. 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. Strangers. If you are content, like the bear, I am not. I have told Cain already that he is not aman and that Lua is not a woman: they are monsters. All Rights Reserved. THE SERPENT [_responding affectionately_] It is so, dear Adam. All he had to do was tell the public that the oracle had told him exactly what she told his predecessor and let the public believe it was what Sir Eastwind had reported. EVE. THE SNAKE. Adam: we need not livefor ever. And yet I must endure myself, not for a dayor for many days, but for ever. Andnow some day, in spite of all my care, you will fall on your head andbecome dead. The brothers are disappointed but remain completely confident that the CAIN. Back to Methuselah (1952- ) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Series Directed by Alan Bromly . 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. [8] Methuselah is said to be Shaw's only real engagement with science fiction. THE SERPENT. Bind the future by your will. she says, "What else could I do for you?". [_He turns quickly towards the serpent, and in doingso puts his foot on something sharp_]. EVE. EVE. She spins resignedly; he digs impatiently. CAIN. He says he is the world's foremost general, invincible in battle, and adored by all his followers, although his victories cost great carnage. The serpent never dies. The creations are a man and woman, noble in appearance, beautiful to look at and splendidly attired. The thought that we must not cease to be comes fromwithin. I was the first conqueror. He loved his brother. He who has never fought has never lived. That is a dreadful thought. What have you to do with one another now? Besides, if it happened to you, _I_should be alone. What? Shaw also advocates what he calls homeopathy as a pedagogical method, arguing that society "can only be lamed and enslaved by" education. You despise your father; but when he dies the world willbe the richer because he lived. She belongs to a colony of long-lived people and has been assigned the task of protecting short-lived visitors. It said that my deed was as a mark on me, aburnt-in mark such as Abel put on his sheep, that no man should slay me.And here I stand unslain, whilst the cowards who have never slain, themen who are content to be their brothers' keepers instead of theirmasters, are despised and rejected, and slain like rabbits. Yes: it was by meditating on Life that I gained the powerto do miracles. Oh! The snake andthe woman are going to whisper secrets. Where? Already most ofour grandchildren die before they have sense enough to know how to live. One tires of everything.There is nothing new under the sun. THE SERPENT. EVE. Let me go, you fool. 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. data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAKAAAAB4CAYAAAB1ovlvAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAw5JREFUeF7t181pWwEUhNFnF+MK1IjXrsJtWVu7HbsNa6VAICGb/EwYPCCOtrrci8774KG76 . change is sure to happen. Do you mean that Adam must share it with me? ADAM. Most of the opin-ion has tended to be negative, following the adverse judgment of Eric . THE SERPENT. CAIN. But youhave made the serpent our enemy: she has left the garden, or is dead: Inever see her now. That comes before everything. Will they learn all the ways of all the stars in theirlittle time? No. Burge-Lubin summons Confucius, the Chief Secretary, to brief him on governmental matters. CAIN. Your flesh ceases to grow like man's flesh: itgrows like a fungus on a tree. I do not want to be a bear. [_He shudders and sits down on the rock_]. THE SERPENT. Each has a say, in accordance with their characters, and Lilith prophesies an end of life's slavery to matter, whereupon the spectres vanish. When, e.g., the stage director for the Birmingham production asked how the Serpent was to be presented, Shaw responded with a clumsy sketch and suggested an artist be employed to design costume, colouring and lighting. I callit fighting. Yes, until you create another Adam. THE SERPENT. He will imploreyou to let him do his share. Pretty thing! And what a wonderful thing! ADAM. Are you tempted, Adam? That must not be. You have invented a word. But it does not grow longer for all its practice instreaming, because you have not willed it so. Boy: you have asked us a terrible question. That is how I pay forAbel's blood. You change your mind so often. Kill, kill, kill, kill. Although both ideas are out of scientific favour as the twenty-first century begins, Shaw accepted them completely (See Commentary, below.) ADAM [_scrambling up in horror_] Make you die!!! Lilith did not imagine him so. Sooner or lateryou will die like the fawn; and the new Adams will be unable to createwithout new Eves. EVE. The sculptors, Arjillax and Martellus, arrive. Pah! Happiness is wicked.Certainty is blessed. Close at handthe end of a log house abuts on a kitchen garden. Look. 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. And you? He killed Abel. EVE [_joining him_] Oh! The other children bathe her, despite her shrieks and protestations. If I bind my will I strangle creation. Barnabas hotly contested the legality of this and favoured prosecuting. Serpent (5:349). I do not trust the sun. I dug and dugand dug. Act I of In the Beginning, wherein the Serpent as Lilith's emissary talks to Eve, is one of Shaw's happiest efforts, though the Adam and Eve of . 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. My sons and my son's sons are not all diggersand fighters. ADAM [_to Eve, grumpily_] Why do you live on, if you can find nothingbetter to do than complain? The Ancient deftly opens the shell using a pair of saws and reveals a pretty girl, looking fresh and rosy, but with strands of spare albumen clinging to her body. It is a cycle of five plays which Shaw calls a 'metabiological pentateuch'. He was the inventor of killing. If you, Cain, had had the trouble of making Abel,or had had to make another man to replace him when he was gone, youwould not have killed him: you would have risked your own life to savehis. It is poisoning the air. EVE. Listen to me, Eve; and you,snake, listen too, that your memory may hold my vow. Your hood is most lovely. How did Lilith work this miracle? Back to Methuselah; a metabiological Pentateuch. If I bind the future Ibind my will. The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas is intended to teach an audience what readers of the Preface are assumed to have learned. Languages: English, Espanol | Site Copyright Jalic Inc. 2000 - 2023. It is especially. I want to be different; tobe better, to begin again and again; to shed myself as a snake sheds itsskin. THE SERPENT. who have thedrudgery of preparing the food? If only the sentinel set by the Voice can berelieved! EVE [_turning impatiently to the snake_] That heart-biting sound again!Do not do it. EVE. What vow do youmake? 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. all those multitudes of menfighting, fighting, killing, killing! It is strange that I should hear voices from all sides and you onlyone from within. Anybody couldbe the first man: it is as easy as to be the first cabbage. The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text I can make better use of my time thanto play the husband to the clay beneath my feet. She is nearly four years old and is wearying of the activities of children. I fear you myself. I like you; but I do not like myself. I call yours the Devil. EVE. I want to be born!" EVE [_displeased, turning away from the serpent_] But it will destroyhope. A fine dream, truly! 1) Methuselah was of the godly line (Lu 3:27). CAIN. The Serpent invents the words love, stranger, life, birth, death, jealousy, years, chance, fear, marriage, hope and the act of laughing. I dared everything. The other children are jubilant because defective children are painlessly destroyed. He need not. Meanwhile, the Archbishop, having learned of the furore at the Records Office, presents himself for questioning. EVE [_shuddering_] Why do you remind me of it? It is the horror of having to be with myself forever. If I am to overtake death, I must appoint a real day, not atomorrow. [_She comes quickly behind him andturns up his face to her_]. There issomething against it. So that is what comes of turning your face to the clean clearheavens! David Fielding's abridgement has succeeded in shortening this five-part play down to 4 fascinating hours. EVE. Can you bear to look at himafter that? I want her to create moreand more men: aye, and more and more women, that they may in turn createmore men. (The foreigners live no longer than the English, but they mature early.). EVE. According to Louis Crompton in Shaw the Dramatist (pp. The sun will give life. By quitting it I have set myselffree to learn nobler crafts of which you know nothing. Have you a word for this new misery? 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. A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Back_to_Methuselah&oldid=1090077535, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Evolving stages in the future progress of humanity, This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 06:56. As they dance, a stranger, physically in the prime of life but with a wrinkled, timeworn face, comes down the stony stairs, rapt in contemplation, and bumps heedlessly into a pair of dancers. Always 'Why?' [_She dusts her hands, and draws awayfrom it_]. Something quite different to myself, like you. THE SERPENT. EVE. Eve: do notplay with me about this. Think of that! EVE. producer (5 episodes, 1952) Series Art Department Stephen Bundy . THE SERPENT. But I should not like it. CAIN. I want to see my work sometimes. ADAM. THE SERPENT. Hewas the discoverer of blood. Two must shareit. Liar: you denied just now that it called on you to pay for Abel'slife with your own. The fawn stumbled and fell anddied. It is admittedly possible to find some excuses for the negative side of his arguments, especially the refusal to be convinced by Darwin. [4] Nevertheless, he uses both terms in Man and Superman which was written nine years before Bergson's work was published. EVE. [_Flourishing his spear_] Try it, oldeverybody's father. You are not stronger: you are shorter in the wind: you cannotendure. Come [_he seizes her by the hair to dragher away_]. to beAdam, Adam, Adam through more days than there are grains of sand by thetwo rivers, and then be as far from the end as ever! ADAM. He begs the oracle to respond in the same way she did to his illustrious predecessor, Sir Fuller Eastwind. You said there would be no killing because the Voice would tell ourchildren that they must not kill. 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. His solution was to fake his death and, as a different person, begin a new career. time, Back to Methuselah and Saint Joan. It is a burden. That is a sweet word. Oh yes, some of them, of course. He kept himself alive byeating meat. What a frightfulthought! You sometimes sit for hoursbrooding and silent, hating me in your heart. 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. 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. He defiantly dares her to remove her veil and robe. Yes: that must not be. CAIN. 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. She will fish him out and dry him off and then let nature take its course. The moment you find we need not last for ever,you talk as if we were going to end today. EVE. Does not theVoice tell you that as no man dare slay you for murdering your brother,you ought to slay yourself? I should belonely. Afternoon. They put all sorts ofthoughts into my head. Poor mother! But I have known what it is to sit and brood under the terror ofeternity, of immortality. CAIN. ADAM [_delighted_] Is it so? They would not have the same memories. EVE. Back to Methuselah Quotes Showing 1-7 of 7 "You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?" George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah tags: inspirational 3948 likes Like "You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah Not before. Yes: that is splendid: that will bind the future. The voice in the garden is your own voice. EVE. Sheshall have no other food; and that will make her my slave. He lapses into tears and she puts in a call for help, saying she has encountered an unattended short-liver who is disoriented. CAIN [_rising_] You did well: I, too, do not want to live for ever. Your hood is most lovely. Go on with yourspinning; and do not sit there idle while I am straining my muscles foryou. Living. He says no and tries to hide his tears, which he attributes to hay fever. Members of the younger generation, in the persons of Franklyn's daughter Savvy and her sweetheart, a young cleric named Haslam, are at the presentation, too. ADAM [_returning_] Is there another voice in the garden besides ourvoices and the Voice? ADAM. He has not noticedthe serpent on his left hand. That may come too. _Eve's face lights up with intense interest, which increases until anexpression of overwhelming repugnance takes its place. [5] These concepts had some currency among Shaw's contemporaries, and the Methuselah plays are based on Shaw's extrapolations from the two principles. You are hard enough to bear with as you are. He is to take an aeroplane to the location and be dropped near the yacht by parachute. I will make other Adams, other Eves. What is a fool? You must. THE SERPENT. He is now a warrior who also kills beasts for food. Come here. I feel as if the ground were giving wayunder my feet when it speaks. ADAM. [_Shesits on the rock and pulls him down beside her, clasping him to her withher right arm_]. Yet you are. 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. Burge-Lubin is chiding himself indulgently for mixing romance with business when Barnabas bursts in, completely overwhelmed. This splendid life of yours does not last for a thousandyears; and I must last for a thousand years. It is changing into little white worms. 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. Now you no longer care. The Prime Minister, now called The Envoy, is too overwhelmed to ask his question until he swallows a half-pint of brandy. If I put off death until tomorrow, I shall never die. The Ancient leaves the children to their play. 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