7 (i) : "Bluntschli is referring to the lie that Raina is protesting she had told for Bluntschli's sake.
Her expression had indicated that in telling the lie she had done violence to nature. She protests her honesty remonstrating that she has only two lies in her whole life and that was only for Bluntschli's sake - to save his life when it was in grave danger.
(ii) : According to Bluntschli, the two things which happen to a soldier so often are that he hears people telling lies so often that it doesn't surprise him. The second thing which happens to a soldier very often is that many different people save him in so many different circumstances and that it is so common that he cannot be expected to remember each time that this happened or the persons who had saved him.
(iii) : Bluntschli says that a soldier "thinks nothing of them" because he says that these experiences (hearing people tell lies and having the experience of people saving him) are so common place in his life that each incident and person cannot be remembered.
Bluntschli romanticizes was and soldier-ship in this play. He may seem without any moral code and ungrateful in making such a statement, but he is merely stating that common place happenings in our life are not remembered in their detail.
(iv) : According to Raina, if what Bluntschli has said about soldiers in the passage is true, then soldiers as a result of their experience in the army and battle become people incapable of faith and gratitude.
This would happen to soldiers because their constant exposure to lies and being saved by all sorts of people all the time all the time results, according to Bluntschli, in them insensitive to people telling lies and forgetful of the occasions and the persons who had saved them.
(v) : "if pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing" is the comment Bluntschli makes to comment on gratitude, which he says he doesn't like. Thus we can take it that Bluntschli does not think highly of gratitude. He believe that we pity those we love and that we express gratitude to somone we do not have real affection for but we express our thanks because it is expected of people with good behaviour to express their thankfulness for a good done to the. Thus gratitude is a type of artificial behaviour.
(vi) : Raina expects that people live up to their ideals e.g. honesty, when she knows that "life is seldom ever like that, indeed, never" as she had said earlier. Yet she feigns a totally honest attitude for fear that others may not think highly of her otherwise.
On the other hand Bluntschli is very frank and realistic. He openly states slightly later "I'm quite a straightforward an myself; but it wouldn't last me a whole morning". He thus emphasizes by an exaggeration that realistically we expect people to compromise on the truth, especially if doesn't harm another person or if it could protect someone.
Her expression had indicated that in telling the lie she had done violence to nature. She protests her honesty remonstrating that she has only two lies in her whole life and that was only for Bluntschli's sake - to save his life when it was in grave danger.
(ii) : According to Bluntschli, the two things which happen to a soldier so often are that he hears people telling lies so often that it doesn't surprise him. The second thing which happens to a soldier very often is that many different people save him in so many different circumstances and that it is so common that he cannot be expected to remember each time that this happened or the persons who had saved him.
(iii) : Bluntschli says that a soldier "thinks nothing of them" because he says that these experiences (hearing people tell lies and having the experience of people saving him) are so common place in his life that each incident and person cannot be remembered.
Bluntschli romanticizes was and soldier-ship in this play. He may seem without any moral code and ungrateful in making such a statement, but he is merely stating that common place happenings in our life are not remembered in their detail.
(iv) : According to Raina, if what Bluntschli has said about soldiers in the passage is true, then soldiers as a result of their experience in the army and battle become people incapable of faith and gratitude.
This would happen to soldiers because their constant exposure to lies and being saved by all sorts of people all the time all the time results, according to Bluntschli, in them insensitive to people telling lies and forgetful of the occasions and the persons who had saved them.
(v) : "if pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing" is the comment Bluntschli makes to comment on gratitude, which he says he doesn't like. Thus we can take it that Bluntschli does not think highly of gratitude. He believe that we pity those we love and that we express gratitude to somone we do not have real affection for but we express our thanks because it is expected of people with good behaviour to express their thankfulness for a good done to the. Thus gratitude is a type of artificial behaviour.
(vi) : Raina expects that people live up to their ideals e.g. honesty, when she knows that "life is seldom ever like that, indeed, never" as she had said earlier. Yet she feigns a totally honest attitude for fear that others may not think highly of her otherwise.
On the other hand Bluntschli is very frank and realistic. He openly states slightly later "I'm quite a straightforward an myself; but it wouldn't last me a whole morning". He thus emphasizes by an exaggeration that realistically we expect people to compromise on the truth, especially if doesn't harm another person or if it could protect someone.
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