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George Bernard Shaw’s Plays Unpleasant are mainly devoted to social criticism; the target of attack is capitalism, the ideologies and systems of ethical values which the dramatist considers are the weapons of capitalist system. The criticism he is putting forward is not purely negative. It has its positive aspects. The dramatist tries to evolve an alternative set of values which can serve as a guide to determine the strategy and tactics of socialism. Shaw lambasts the various social institutions in these plays. The whole of Shaw’s vehement tirade against social, political, economic and religious institutions is explicable in terms of his plea for the reconstruction of society on the socialistic pattern. These plays make an argument not for creating a void of social instincts but for their adequate nurture.