Professor Henry Corrie

CHARACTER discipline OF PROFESSOR HENRY CORRIE grounding St. John G. Ervine presents the sensational sport PROGRESS in which the story rotates virtually the characters of Professor Henry corrie and his sis Mrs. Meldon. Professor Henry cwm is about sixty geezerhood of age. He lives in a remoter village in the North of England. He is happy in isolation because he can concentrate on his secret research work. APPEARANCE Corrie has cold humorless eyes. on that point are cruel lines on his face yet they are bidden shtup the thickish beard.He is very dangerous but apparently he does not reckon to be so. He is a symbol of tyranny. destruction, selfishness and materialism. INTELLIGENT SCIENTIST Corrie is D. Sc. And highly, better scientist of England. He is make outly absorbed in his research word. After a life long struggle, he has been successful in discovering a dire formula of a devastating go. It give devastate a district. It go forth release a powerful, spreading poison ous gas, without colour or smell. Those who will inhale it, their bodies will rot and rust and nothing will provided them happily he says AhAt last by heaven I Have done it, at last. MATERIALISTIC AND UNPATRIOTIC Corrie is the complete representative of todays materialistic world. Although his bomb will blot out thousands with in no time, and will wipe out big cities bid Manchester yet he feels proud of his invention and say This will process fame and fortune to me. I shall be rich now, but more than that I shall be famous. He is mad after riches. Greed and lust of wealth has turned him not only materialistic and selfish but overly unpatriotic. If they wont pay my price, Ill offer it to son ebody else.This is the blossom of treachery. The great scientist fails to visualize that if the foe uses that bomb, his own country-men would be eliminated. UNSOCIAL AND UNCOURTOUS Corrie is not a social man. He is so lost in his work that he has lost all interest for the human beings. Although he makes a promise to go to the station to the receive his only sister yet he does not go. It is the third death anniversary of Eddie. Mrs. Meldons only son. She is sad, instead of sympathizing with her, he proudly talks about his smuggled bomb. He is cruel and selfish.He forces her to rejoice at the dreadful invention. He asks her but look at the maher from a, Broad point of view. Put your Own feelings diversion . HATRED FOR WOMEN Corrie lacks aesthetic sense. He is a misogamist. He is free with the finer values of life. That is why he has not married as yet. He hates women and his sister is no exception to his hatred. He say Oh how women do fuss No Application. No concentration. Thats why no women get under ones skin Ever been great artists or scientists. PROUD AND CALLOUS Corrie is a wolf in sheeps clothing.Corrie is doing nothing to reduce poverty or hunger. alternatively he has been busy in inventing a dangerous bomb for his own selfish motives. In his own words With a star bomb we could Wipe out the population of a city As big as Manchester. Single bomb Charlotte CONCLUSION Mrs Meldon asks him time and again to suppress his evil invention. But he pays no heed to it. Rather he becomes angry and calls her morbid, fool of a woman. He makes fun of her ideas, laughs harshly and finally says Well, shant. Give up my Invention for a lot of necessitate sentiment Not likely n her desperate step to hold open the world from destruction, she stabs him to death. In fact he was the symbol of vice, destruction and enemy of mankind. He suffered in a deserving way. CHARACTER SKETCH OF MRS. MELDON INTRODUCTION St. John G. Ervine presents the sensational drama PROGRESS in which the story rotates around the characters of Mrs. Meldon and Professor Henry Corrie. Mrs. Meldon is also called Charlotte. Her heart brims with the love of Mankind and is against warfares and war mongers. She symbolizes love and affection, peace and tranquility modesty and humanit y.